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Blind Quantum Signature with Blind Quantum Computation

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Blind quantum computation allows a client without quantum abilities to interact with a quantum server to perform a unconditional secure computing protocol, while protecting client’s privacy. Motivated by confidentiality of blind quantum computation, a blind quantum signature scheme is designed with laconic structure. Different from the traditional signature schemes, the signing and verifying operations are performed through measurement-based quantum computation. Inputs of blind quantum computation are securely controlled with multi-qubit entangled states. The unique signature of the transmitted message is generated by the signer without leaking information in imperfect channels. Whereas, the receiver can verify the validity of the signature using the quantum matching algorithm. The security is guaranteed by entanglement of quantum system for blind quantum computation. It provides a potential practical application for e-commerce in the cloud computing and first-generation quantum computation.

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  1. School of Information Science & Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China

    Wei Li, Ronghua Shi & Ying Guo

  2. School of Physics Science and Information Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410005, China

    Ying Guo

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61272495, 61379153, 61572529).

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Li, W., Shi, R. & Guo, Y. Blind Quantum Signature with Blind Quantum Computation. Int J Theor Phys 56, 1108–1115 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-016-3252-z

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