Two-Party Quantum Key Agreement Protocol Based on Four-Particle χ State

Abstract

The invention discloses a four-particle x state-based two-party quantum key agreement protocol. The protocol includes following steps that: step 1, Alice and Bob negotiate on quantum-state codes; step 2, Alice prepares n x-state|x<00>>ABCD, and divides all the particles into four ordered sequences, and selects out 2m decoy photons and inserts the decoy photons into the sequences and transmits the sequences to Bob; step 3, Bob measures corresponding decoy photons with a correct measurement base, and informs Alice of measurement results; Alice compares the measurement results and the initial states of the decoy photons, and calculates an error rate, and executes step 4 if the error rate is low, otherwise, executes step 2; and step 4, Alice performs Bell measurement on the particles, Bob executes Z convolution Z-base measurement on the sequences, and Alice and Bob both obtain a shared key. The protocol of the invention can resist existing participant attacks, external attacks and Troy Trojan horse attacks; and the protocol is safe in a noise-free quantum channel and a quantum noise channel. The quantum bit efficiency of the protocol of the invention is higher than that of an existing secure multi-particle entangled state-based quantum key agreement protocol.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the field of quantum communication, and in particular relates to a quantum key agreement (Quantum key agreement) protocol, in particular to a two-party quantum key agreement agreement based on a four-particle χ state. Background technique [0002] Quantum cryptography is a new technology for communication and network security, and its security is guaranteed by the basic principles of quantum mechanics. Unlike traditional cryptography, which is mostly computationally secure, quantum cryptography can achieve unconditional security, which has attracted a lot of attention. The quantum key agreement (QKA) protocol is a new important branch of quantum cryptography, which allows participants to negotiate a classical shared secret key through an open quantum channel, and the contribution of each participant is the same, any participant None or a subset of participants can independently determine the shared secret. Using the shared se...

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The disadvantage of this protocol is: since the protocol is a Ping-Pong protocol, that is, the same particle is transmitted back and forth in the quantum channel, the protocol cannot resist the invisible photon eavesdropping (IPE) Trojan attack and delayed photon Trojan attack

The disadvantage of this protocol is: the qubit efficiency of this protocol is too low, its qubit efficiency is only 10%

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