Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2009-03-20
Quantum Information & Computation, Vol.9, No.5&6 (2009) 0376-0394
Physics
Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
In this paper, we first point out that some recently proposed quantum direct communication (QDC) protocols with authentication are vulnerable under some specific attacks, and the secrete message will leak out to the authenticator who is introduced to authenticate users participating in the communication. We then propose a new protocol that is capable of achieving secure QDC with authentication as long as the authenticator would do the authentication job faithfully. Our quantum protocol introduces a mutual authentication procedure, uses the quantum Bell states, and applies unitary transformations in the authentication process. Then it exploits and utilizes the entanglement swapping and local unitary operations in the communication processes. Thus, after the authentication process, the client users are left alone to communicate with each other, and the authenticator has no access to the secrete message. In addition, our protocol does not require a direct quantum link between any two users, who want to communicate with each other. This may also be an appealing advantage in the implementation of a practical quantum communication network.
Chou Yao-Hsin
Goan* Hsi-Sheng
Horng Shi-Jinn
Kao Tzong-Wann
Yen Cheng-An
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