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A Novel Quantum Group Proxy Blind Signature Scheme Based on Five-Qubit Entangled State

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A novel quantum group proxy blind signature scheme based on five-qubit entangled state is proposed. The quantum key distribution, quantum encryption algorithm and some laws of quantum mechanics (such as quantum no-cloning theorem and Heisenberg uncertainty principle) are used to guarantee the unconditional security of this scheme. Analysis result shows that the signature can neither be forged nor disavowed by any malicious attackers and our scheme satisfies all the characteristics of group signature and proxy signature. This protocol can be applied in real life such as E-commerce transaction.

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This work is partially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFB0802400), the National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61373171,61702007), the 111 Project under (Grant No. B08038)

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Networks, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, Shaanxi, China

    Ge Liu, Wen-Ping Ma, Hao Cao & Liang-Dong Lyu

  2. School of Information and Network Engineering, Anhui Science and Technology University, Chuzhou, 233100, Anhui, China

    Hao Cao

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Liu, G., Ma, WP., Cao, H. et al. A Novel Quantum Group Proxy Blind Signature Scheme Based on Five-Qubit Entangled State. Int J Theor Phys 58, 1999–2008 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-019-04093-9

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