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A Trusted Third-Party E-Payment Protocol Based on Quantum Blind Signature Without Entanglement

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In this paper, we present a trusted third-party e-payment protocol which is designed based on quantum blind signature without entanglement. The security and verifiability of our scheme are guaranteed by using single-particle unitary operation, quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol and one-time pad. Furthermore, once there is a dispute among the participants, it can be solved with the assistance of the third-party platform which is reliant.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61402275, 61402015, 61273311), the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (Grant Nos. 2015JM6263, 2016JM6069), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. GK201402004).

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  1. School of Mathematics and Information Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, 710119, Shaanxi, China

    Xi Guo & Jian-Zhong Zhang

  2. School of Science, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi’an, 710121, Shaanxi, China

    Shu-Cui Xie

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Guo, X., Zhang, JZ. & Xie, SC. A Trusted Third-Party E-Payment Protocol Based on Quantum Blind Signature Without Entanglement. Int J Theor Phys 57, 2657–2664 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-018-3787-2

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