https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2004-00296-4
A scheme for secure direct communication using EPR pairs and teleportation
1
CCAST (World Laboratory), P.O. Box 8730, Beijing 100080, P.R. China
2
Department of Physics, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050016, P.R. China
Corresponding author: a gaoting@heinfo.net
Received:
17
March
2004
Published online:
30
September
2004
A novel scheme for secure direct communication between Alice and Bob is proposed, where there is no need for establishing a shared secret key. The communication is based on Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) pairs and teleportation between Alice and Bob. After insuring the security of the quantum channel (EPR pairs), Bob encodes the secret message directly on a sequence of particle states and transmits them to Alice by teleportation. In this scheme teleportation transmits Bob's message without revealing any information to a potential eavesdropper. Alice can read out the encoded messages directly by the measurement on her qubits. Because there is not a transmission of the qubit which carries the secret message between Alice and Bob, it is completely secure for direct secret communication if perfect quantum channel is used.
PACS: 03.67.Dd – Quantum cryptography / 03.67.Hk – Quantum communication
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