Cryptanalysis and improvement of several quantum private comparison protocols  

作　　者：Zhao-Xu Ji Pei-Ru Fan Huan-Guo Zhang Hou-Zhen Wang 

机构地区：[1]Key Laboratory of Aerospace Information Security and Trusted Computing,Ministry of Education,School of Cyber Science and Engineering,Wuhan University,Wuhan 430072,China

出　　处：《Communications in Theoretical Physics》2020年第8期57-62,共6页理论物理通讯（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant 61332019;the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China(973 Program)under grant 2014CB340601;the National Science Foundation of China under grant 61202386 and grant 61402339;the National Cryptography Development Fund of China under grant MMJJ201701304。

摘　　要：Recently, Wu et al(2019 Int. J. Theor. Phys. 58 1854) found a serious information leakage problem in Ye and Ji’s quantum private comparison protocol(2017 Int. J. Theor. Phys. 561517), that is, a malicious participant can steal another’s secret data without being detected through an active attack means. In this paper, we show that Wu et al’s active attack is also effective for several other existing protocols, including the ones proposed by Ji et al and Zha et al(2016 Commun. Theor. Phys. 65 711;2018 Int. J. Theor. Phys. 57 3874). In addition,we propose what a passive attack means, which is different from Wu et al’s active attack in that the malicious participant can easily steal another’s secret data only by using his own secret data after finishing the protocol, instead of stealing the data by forging identities when executing the protocol. Furthermore, we find that several other existing quantum private comparison protocols also have such an information leakage problem. In response to the problem, we propose a simple solution, which is more efficient than the ones proposed by Wu et al, because it does not consume additional classical and quantum resources.

关 键 词：quantum information security quantum cryptography quantum private comparison information leakage problem passive attack 

分 类 号：O413[理学—理论物理] TN918[理学—物理]