Abstract

I comment on the recent Letter by Cai et al. [Opt. Lett. 40, 475 (2015). [CrossRef]  ], in which the authors claimed that the method can resist the special attack. However, I think their attack analysis and algorithm are ill-considered and worth discussing.

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