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A third-party E-payment protocol is presented in this paper. It is based on quantum multi-proxy blind signature. Adopting the techniques of quantum key distribution, one-time pad and quantum multi-proxy blind signature, our third-party E-payment system could protect user’s anonymity as the traditional E-payment systems do, and also have unconditional security which the classical E-payment systems can not provide. Furthermore, compared with the existing quantum E-payment systems, the proposed system could support the E-payment which using the third-party platforms.



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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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Niu, XF., Zhang, JZ., Xie, SC. et al. A Third-Party E-payment Protocol Based on Quantum Multi-proxy Blind Signature. Int J Theor Phys 57, 2563–2573 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-018-3778-3
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