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Improvement of the security of quantum protocols for anonymous voting and surveying

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Several quantum protocols were proposed in a recent paper by Vaccaro, Spring and Chefles for ensuring the anonymous voting in a number of different scenarios. However, it is shown that their protocols are very vulnerable in terms of security. Improved schemes are also presented to recover the security.

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Xu, Q., Zhang, S. Improvement of the security of quantum protocols for anonymous voting and surveying. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 53, 2131–2134 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-010-4130-y

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