TY - JOUR
T1 - Statistics attack on ‘quantum private comparison with a malicious third party’ and its improvement
AU - Gu, Jun
AU - Ho, Chih Yung
AU - Hwang, Tzonelih
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements We would like to thank the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China, Taiwan, for partially supporting this research in finance under the Contract No. MOST 105-2221-E-006-162 -MY2.
Funding Information:
We would like to thank the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China, Taiwan, for partially supporting this research in finance under the Contract No. MOST 105-2221-E-006-162 -MY2.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/2/1
Y1 - 2018/2/1
N2 - Recently, Sun et al. (Quantum Inf Process:14:2125-2133, 2015) proposed a quantum private comparison protocol allowing two participants to compare the equality of their secrets via a malicious third party (TP). They designed an interesting trap comparison method to prevent the TP from knowing the final comparison result. However, this study shows that the malicious TP can use the statistics attack to reveal the comparison result. A simple modification is hence proposed to solve this problem.
AB - Recently, Sun et al. (Quantum Inf Process:14:2125-2133, 2015) proposed a quantum private comparison protocol allowing two participants to compare the equality of their secrets via a malicious third party (TP). They designed an interesting trap comparison method to prevent the TP from knowing the final comparison result. However, this study shows that the malicious TP can use the statistics attack to reveal the comparison result. A simple modification is hence proposed to solve this problem.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11128-017-1788-3
DO - 10.1007/s11128-017-1788-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85039045950
SN - 1570-0755
VL - 17
JO - Quantum Information Processing
JF - Quantum Information Processing
IS - 2
M1 - 23
ER -