A Three-Party W-State Quantum Secret Sharing Protocol with X-Gate Encoding and Forbidden-Outcome Detection
Abstract
We develop a new three-party quantum secret-sharing (QSS) protocol based on a three-qubit W state. This protocol encodes the secret-sequence bits using X gates and employs randomly selected Hadamard operations and measurement bases to generate information and security-test rounds. We evaluate the efficiency of the proposed protocol and analyze its security against an internal adversary performing intercept-and-resend and entangle-and-measure attacks, deriving the corresponding detection probabilities. The analysis of the entangle-and-measure attack shows that extracting information through an ancillary system leads to a nonzero probability of forbidden outcomes in the test rounds, thereby enabling the detection of the attack. The proposed protocol is implemented in Python using the Qsikit framework and executed on quantum processors. Its performance is evaluated in terms of the quantum bit error rate (QBER) for information rounds under different secret-bit encoding configurations. The experimental results demonstrate that the QBER depends noticeably on the quantum processor used.
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BibTeX
@misc{teregulov2026threeparty,
title = {{A Three-Party W-State Quantum Secret Sharing Protocol with X-Gate Encoding and Forbidden-Outcome Detection}},
author = {Timur R. Teregulov and Elena R. Loubenets},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.31472},
eprint = {2609.31472},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.31472},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - A Three-Party W-State Quantum Secret Sharing Protocol with X-Gate Encoding and Forbidden-Outcome Detection
AU - Timur R. Teregulov
AU - Elena R. Loubenets
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/25
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.31472
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.31472
AB - We develop a new three-party quantum secret-sharing (QSS) protocol based on a three-qubit W state. This protocol encodes the secret-sequence bits using X gates and employs randomly selected Hadamard operations and measurement bases to generate information and security-test rounds. We evaluate the efficiency of the proposed protocol and analyze its security against an internal adversary performing intercept-and-resend and entangle-and-measure attacks, deriving the corresponding detection probabilities. The analysis of the entangle-and-measure attack shows that extracting information through an ancillary system leads to a nonzero probability of forbidden outcomes in the test rounds, thereby enabling the detection of the attack. The proposed protocol is implemented in Python using the Qsikit framework and executed on quantum processors. Its performance is evaluated in terms of the quantum bit error rate (QBER) for information rounds under different secret-bit encoding configurations. The experimental results demonstrate that the QBER depends noticeably on the quantum processor used.
ER -