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Security Analysis of Particular Quantum Proxy Blind Signature Against the Forgery Attack

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As an important topic of quantum cryptography, quantum proxy blind signature has attracted more and more attentions in recent years. However, with our analysis, it can be seen that there exists a common security loophole in two particular quantum proxy blind signature schemes, i.e., the receiver can forge a valid signature without being caught by others. In order to show that, the detailed attack strategy and the potential improved ideas are proposed in this paper.

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Acknowledgements

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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    Bao-Min Zhou, Lian-Dong Lin & Wei Wang

  2. Department of Electronic and Engineer, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, 150080, China

    Lian-Dong Lin

  3. School of Department of Munnicipal and Environmental Engineering, Heilongjiang Institute of Construction Technology, Harbin, 150025, China

    Ying Liu

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Zhou, BM., Lin, LD., Wang, W. et al. Security Analysis of Particular Quantum Proxy Blind Signature Against the Forgery Attack. Int J Theor Phys 59, 465–473 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-019-04340-z

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