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Revisiting “The Loophole of the Improved Secure Quantum Sealed-Bid Auction with Post-Confirmation and Solution”

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Recently, Luo et al. make a detailed analysis on the security of quantum sealed-bid auction with post-confirmation protocol (Quantum Information Processing, Volume 11, Issue 6, pp 1359–1369, 2012) and present the corresponding improved strategy for its loophole. Unfortunately, we find their improved version is still not as secure as expected, since it is vulnerable to malicious bidders in collusion with the auctioneer. And there is an unreasonable suspicion in the honesty of the auctioneer for special situation. Then we propose an improved strategy, which can perfectly defeat kinds of attacks.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by NSFC (Grant Nos. 61300181, 61272057, 61202434, 61170270, 61100203, 61121061), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 4122054), Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project.

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    Qing-Le Wang, Wei-Wei Zhang & Qi Su

  2. The State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, Xian, 710071, China

    Qing-Le Wang

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Wang, QL., Zhang, WW. & Su, Q. Revisiting “The Loophole of the Improved Secure Quantum Sealed-Bid Auction with Post-Confirmation and Solution”. Int J Theor Phys 53, 3147–3153 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-014-2112-y

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