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Quantum Information Processing
Published in: Quantum Information Processing 4/2021

01-04-2021

Quantum Bell states-based anonymous voting with anonymity trace

Authors: Qingle Wang, Jiangshan Liu, Yuancheng Li, Chaohang Yu, Shijie Pan

Published in: Quantum Information Processing | Issue 4/2021

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Abstract

Anonymous voting is widely used in economic and social activities, whenever it requires to express opinions privately and fairly. In this paper, we consider the task of anonymous voting using quantum mechanics. Based on quantum Bell states, anonymous entanglement is established between each voter and a tallier; thus, employing the one-time pad technique, each voter can privately cast his/her vote to the tallier. The tallier provides a mechanism of opening and permuting the ordered votes of all voters in an anonymous manner. With the distribution of all counted votes, the voting results can be obtained through a simple calculation. By a private address index, each voter can anonymously trace his/her counted vote, leading to verifiability. Following the practical requirements, the quantum anonymous voting protocol satisfies privacy, non-reusability and verifiability at the same time. Under the ideal conditions, the security concerning some common attacks is given in detail, and the theoretical analysis states that this protocol is secure.
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Metadata
Title
Quantum Bell states-based anonymous voting with anonymity trace
Authors
Qingle Wang
Jiangshan Liu
Yuancheng Li
Chaohang Yu
Shijie Pan
Publication date
01-04-2021
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Quantum Information Processing / Issue 4/2021
Print ISSN: 1570-0755
Electronic ISSN: 1573-1332
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-021-03081-5

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