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Analysis and Improvement of Steganography Protocol Based on Bell States in Noise Environment

Zhiguo Qu^1,*, Shengyao Wu², Wenjie Liu¹, Xiaojun Wang³

1 Jiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China.
2 School of Computer & Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China.
3 School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.

* Corresponding Author: Zhiguo Qu. Email: .

Computers, Materials & Continua 2019, 59(2), 607-624. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2019.02656

Abstract

In the field of quantum communication, quantum steganography is an important branch of quantum information hiding. In a realistic quantum communication system, quantum noises are unavoidable and will seriously impact the safety and reliability of the quantum steganographic system. Therefore, it is very important to analyze the influence of noise on the quantum steganography protocol and how to reduce the effect of noise. This paper takes the quantum steganography protocol proposed in 2010 as an example to analyze the effects of noises on information qubits and secret message qubits in the four primary quantum noise environments. The results show that when the noise factor of one quantum channel noise is known, the size of the noise factor of the other quantum channel can be adjusted accordingly, such as artificially applying noise, so that the influence of noises on the protocol is minimized. In addition, this paper also proposes a method of improving the efficiency of the steganographic protocol in a noisy environment.

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