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The Three-party Quantum Key Agreement Protocol with Quantum Fourier Transform

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Quantum key agreement(QKA) is an important part of quantum cryptography. In QKA, the final shared key must be negotiated equally by all participants, and any nontrivial subset of participants cannot fully determine the shared key. In this scheme, a novel three-party QKA with quantum fourier transform(QFT) is proposed. In addition, we utilize random numbers, decoy states and a hash function to make this protocol be resistant external attacks and participant attacks. Furthermore, the scheme can meet fairness i.e. each participant contributes fairly and equally to the final key.

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This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61802118, Open Foundation of State key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology (BUPT) under Grant No. SKLNST-2018-1-07, University Nursing Program for Young Scholars with Creative Talents in Heilongjiang Province under Grant No. UNPYSCT-2018015 , Hei Long Jiang Postdoctoral Foundation under Grant No.LBH-Z17048 and Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province under Grant No.LH2019F031.

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    Wei Wang, Bao-Min Zhou & Long Zhang

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Wang, W., Zhou, BM. & Zhang, L. The Three-party Quantum Key Agreement Protocol with Quantum Fourier Transform. Int J Theor Phys 59, 1944–1955 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-020-04467-4

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