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A New Multi-Party Quantum Private Comparison Protocol Based on Circle Model

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Recently multi-party quantum private comparison (MQPC) has attracted more and more attentions in the research of quantum cryptography. In our paper, a new MQPC protocol has been proposed by encoding the compared secrets on the phase of n-level single photons. From the proposed protocol, a generic model named circle model can be summarized. With the help of a semi-honest third party (TP), it can be proved that our protocol is immune to the outside attack and dishonest participants’ (including TP) attack.

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This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61472097,61802118.

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    Gang Du & Chunguang Ma

  2. School of Mathematical Science, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, 150080, China

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Du, G., Zhang, F. & Ma, C. A New Multi-Party Quantum Private Comparison Protocol Based on Circle Model. Int J Theor Phys 58, 3225–3233 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-019-04197-2

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