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The Cryptanalysis and Improvement of a Particular Quantum Voting Model

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As an important topic of quantum cryptography, quantum voting has attracted more and more attentions recently. However, with our analysis, it can be seen that there exist some serious problems in a particular quantum voting model. Firstly, the voter does not have the ability to vote as his own. Secondly, the voter may be dishonest and can deny some corresponding voting results. Furthermore, some improvements will be presented to solve the loopholes.

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Acknowledgments

We thank to the support of Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of the Theory and Computation of Complex Systems. The work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61802118, Open Foundation of State key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology (BUPT) under Grant No. SKLNST-2018-1-07, University Nursing Program for Young Scholars with Creative Talents in Heilongjiang Province under Grant No. UNPYSCT-2018015, Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province under Grant No.JJ2019LH0173, Heilongjiang Postdoctoral Foundation under Grant No.LBH-Z17048 and Heilongjiang University Innovation Fund under Grant No.YJSCX2019-205HLJU.

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  1. School of Mathematical Science, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, 150080, China

    Bao-Min Zhou & Ke-Jia Zhang

  2. Center for Quantum Computing, Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, 518055, China

    Ke-Jia Zhang

  3. State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China

    Xue Zhang

  4. School of Control and Computer Engineering North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, China

    Qing-Le Wang

  5. CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China

    Qing-Le Wang

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Zhou, BM., Zhang, KJ., Zhang, X. et al. The Cryptanalysis and Improvement of a Particular Quantum Voting Model. Int J Theor Phys 59, 1109–1120 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-020-04392-6

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