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Quantum proxy signature scheme with public verifiability

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In recent years, with the development of quantum cryptography, quantum signature has also made great achievement. However, the effectiveness of all the quantum signature schemes reported in the literature can only be verified by a designated person. Therefore, its wide applications are limited. For solving this problem, a new quantum proxy signature scheme using EPR quantum entanglement state and unitary transformation to generate proxy signature is presented. Proxy signer announces his public key when he generates the final signature. According to the property of unitary transformation and quantum one-way function, everyone can verify whether the signature is effective or not by the public key. So the quantum proxy signature scheme in our paper can be public verified. The quantum key distribution and one-time pad encryption algorithm guarantee the unconditional security of this scheme. Analysis results show that this new scheme satisfies strong non-counterfeit and strong non-disavowal.

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    JingXian Zhou, YaJian Zhou, XinXin Niu & YiXian Yang

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Zhou, J., Zhou, Y., Niu, X. et al. Quantum proxy signature scheme with public verifiability. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 54, 1828 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-011-4457-z

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