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A new experimentally feasible anonymous survey protocol with authentication using Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) entangled states is proposed. In this protocol, a chief executive officer (CEO) of a firm or company is trying to find out the effect of a possible action. In order to prepare a fair voting, the CEO would like to make an anonymous survey and is also interested in the total action for the whole company and he doesn’t want to have a partial estimate for each department. In our proposal, there are two voters, Alice and Bob, voting on a question with a response of either ”yes” or ”no” and a tallyman, whose responsibility is to determine whether they have cast the same vote or not. In the proposed protocol the total response of the voters is calculated without revealing the actual votes of the voters.
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This work is supported by Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, IRAN, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.61561033 and 61462061), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (Grant No. 20151BAB207002), and the Research Foundation of the Education Department of Jiangxi Province (Grant No. GJJ14138). It is our pleasure to thank Soheila Gholipour, Yasna Naseri and Viana Naseri for their interests in this work.
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Naseri, M., Gong, LH., Houshmand, M. et al. An Anonymous Surveying Protocol via Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger States. Int J Theor Phys 55, 4436–4444 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-016-3066-z
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