“…In recent years, several other protocols referred to as BQSDC [9,10], quantum telephone [11], quantum dialogue [12], quantum conversation [13], etc, have also been proposed using (i) dense coding [8], (ii) auxiliary particles [9], (iii) entangled states [10,14], (iv) single photon [12,15,16], (v) entanglement swapping [17], (vi) two-photon entanglement [18,19], etc. These are actually different names used for equivalent protocols, and there are subtle differences in these protocols.…”