New Quantum Private Comparison Using Four-Particle Cluster State.

Entropy (Basel)

School of Cybersecurity (Xin Gu Industrial College), Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu 610225, China.

Published: June 2024

Quantum private comparison (QPC) enables two users to securely conduct private comparisons in a network characterized by mutual distrust while guaranteeing the confidentiality of their private inputs. Most previous QPC protocols were primarily used to determine the equality of private information between two users, which constrained their scalability. In this paper, we propose a QPC protocol that leverages the entanglement correlation between particles in a four-particle cluster state. This protocol can compare the information of two groups of users within one protocol execution, with each group consisting of two users. A semi-honest third party (TP), who will not deviate from the protocol execution or conspire with any participant, is involved in assisting users to achieve private comparisons. Users encode their inputs into specific angles of rotational operations performed on the received quantum sequence, which is then sent back to TP. Security analysis shows that both external attacks and insider threats are ineffective at stealing private data. Finally, we compare our protocol with some previously proposed QPC protocols.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11203279PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e26060512DOI Listing

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