Paper 2024/1749

Revisiting the “improving the security of multi-party quantum key agreement with five- qubit Brown states”

Yu-Yuan Chou, Department of Physics, National Central University, Taiwan
Hsien-Hung Liu, Graduate Institute of Religious Studies College of Nanhua University, Taiwan
Jue-Sam Chou, Department of Information Management, Nanhua University, Taiwan
Abstract

In 2018 Cai et al. proposed a multi-party quantum key agreement with five-qubit Brown states. They confirmed the security of their proposed scheme. However, Elhadad, Ahmed, et al. found the scheme cannot resist the collusion attack launched by legal participants. They suggested a modification and declared that their improved version is capable of resisting this type of attack. Nevertheless, after analysis, we found that the collusion attack still exists. Subsequently, we proposed a straightforward modification to prevent the attack. After analysis, we conclude that our modification meets the required security and collusion attack requirements, which are very important in the quantum key agreement scheme.

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Cryptographic protocols
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Preprint.
Keywords
quantum key agreementfive-qubit Brown statecollusion attackone-way hash functionquantum channel
Contact author(s)
warrior1819150 @ gmail com
10769553 @ nhu edu tw
jschou @ nhu edu tw
History
2024-10-28: approved
2024-10-26: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2024/1749
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2024/1749,
      author = {Yu-Yuan Chou and Hsien-Hung Liu and Jue-Sam Chou},
      title = {Revisiting the “improving the security of multi-party quantum key agreement with five- qubit Brown states”},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2024/1749},
      year = {2024},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1749}
}
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