https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-021-00175-8
Regular Article - Quantum Information
A verifiable quantum key agreement protocol based on six-qubit cluster states
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Shaanxi Normal University, 710119, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China
Received:
8
January
2021
Accepted:
6
May
2021
Published online:
1
July
2021
Quantum key agreement requires all participants to recover the shared key together, so it is crucial to resist the participant attack. In this paper, we propose a verifiable multi-party quantum key agreement protocol based on the six-qubit cluster states. A verifiable distributor who preserves some subsequences of the six-qubit cluster states is introduced into this protocol, thus the participants cannot obtain the shared key in advance. Besides, the correctness and simultaneity of the shared key are guaranteed by the trusted design combiner and homomorphic hash function. Furthermore, the security analysis shows that the new protocol can resist the external and internal attacks.
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