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A Choreographed Distributed Electronic Voting Scheme

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In this paper, we propose a choreographed distributed electronic voting scheme, which is based on quantum group blind signature. Our distributed electronic voting scheme could really protect the message owner’s privacy and anonymity which the classical electronic voting systems can not provide. The electors can exercise their voting rights effectively, and no one other than the tallyman Bob knows the contents of his vote. Moreover, we use quantum key distribution protocol and quantum one-time pad to guarantee its unconditional security. Furthermore, when there was a dispute, the group supervisor David can detect the source of the signature based on the signature’s serial number \(SN\).

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

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

    Jia-Lei Zhang & 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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Zhang, JL., Zhang, JZ. & Xie, SC. A Choreographed Distributed Electronic Voting Scheme. Int J Theor Phys 57, 2676–2686 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-018-3789-0

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