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A Blind Signature Protocol with Exchangeable Signature Sequence

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In this paper, an arbitrated blind signature scheme with one particle is proposed, which can exchange the blinding and signing process. For the quantum blind signature, this paper analyzes the traceability depends on whether or not to get the help of the trusted third party arbitration.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant No. 61701035 and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) under Grant No. 2017RC34.

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Fan, L. A Blind Signature Protocol with Exchangeable Signature Sequence. Int J Theor Phys 57, 3850–3858 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-018-3897-x

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