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We propose an e-voting protocol that seems to allow citizens to verify that their vote has been accurately taken into account while preserving its secrecy, without requiring the use of a complex process. The main idea is to give each voter…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2008-08-19 Frederic Connes

Modern digitally controlled systems require multiparty authentication and authorization to meet the desired security requirement. This paper describes the design and development of NDN-MPS, an automated solution to support multiparty…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Zhiyi Zhang , Siqi Liu , Randy King , Lixia Zhang

This paper devises a simple quantum bit commitment protocol that is just as easy to implement as any existing practical quantum bit commitment protocols but will be more secure. It will be infinitely close to being unconditionally fully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Muqian Wen

We propose a smart contract that allows two mutually distrusting parties to transact any non-digital good or service by deploying a smart contract on a blockchain to act as escrow. The contract settles disputes by letting parties wager that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Nikolaj Ignatieff Schwartzbach

Cryptography promises four information security objectives, namely, confidentiality, integrity, authenticity, and non-repudiation, to support trillions of transactions annually in the digital economy. Efficient digital signatures, ensuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Hua-Lei Yin , Yao Fu , Chen-Long Li , Chen-Xun Weng , Bing-Hong Li , Jie Gu , Yu-Shuo Lu , Shan Huang , Zeng-Bing Chen

This paper presents a new quantum protocol designed to simultaneously transmit information from one source to many recipients. The proposed protocol, which is based on the phenomenon of entanglement, is completely distributed and is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Theodore Andronikos , Alla Sirokofskich

A $(t,n)-$ threshold signature scheme enables distributed signing among $n$ players such that any subgroup of size $t$ can sign, whereas any group with fewer players cannot. Our goal is to produce signatures that are compatible with an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Michele Battagliola , Riccardo Longo , Alessio Meneghetti , Massimiliano Sala

A token ring is an arrangement of N processors that take turns engaging in an activity which must be controlled. A token confers the right to engage in the controlled activity. Processors communicate with neighbors in the ring to obtain and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-01-11 Ted Herman

The trade-off of secrecy is the difficulty of verification. This trade-off means that contracts must be kept private, yet their compliance needs to be verified, which we call the secrecy-verifiability paradox. However, the existing smart…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Ha-Thanh Nguyen

We present a two-party protocol for quantum gambling, a new task closely related to coin tossing. The protocol allows two remote parties to play a gambling game, such that in a certain limit it becomes a fair game. No unconditionally secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 Lior Goldenberg , Lev Vaidman , Stephen Wiesner

Recently, Sun et al. [Quant Inf Proc DOI: 10.1007/s11128-013-0569-x] presented an efficient multi-party quantum key agreement (QKA) protocol by employing single particles and unitary operations. The aim of this protocol is to fairly and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-24 Wei Huang , Qiao-Yan Wen , Bin Liu , Qi Su , Fei Gao

Two orthogonal-state-based protocols of quantum key agreement (QKA) are proposed. The first protocol of QKA proposed here is designed for two-party QKA, whereas the second protocol is designed for multi-party QKA. Security of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 Chitra Shukla , Nasir Alam , Anirban Pathak

In this work, a new digital signature based on elliptic curves is presented. We established its efficiency and security. The method, derived from a variant of ElGamal signature scheme, can be seen as a secure alternative protocol if known…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Ounasser Abid , Jaouad Ettanfouhi , Omar Khadir

An option is a financial agreement between two parties to trade two assets. One party is given the right, but not the obligation, to complete the swap before a specified termination time. In todays financial markets, an option is considered…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Daniel Engel , Yingjie Xue

With the massive amount of digital data generated everyday, transactions of digital goods become a trend. One of the essential requirements for such transactions is fairness, which is defined as that both of the seller and the buyer get…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Peng Zhang , Jiaquan Wei , Yuhong Liu , Hongwei Liu

Previous Web access authentication systems often use either the Web or the Mobile channel individually to confirm the claimed identity of the remote user. This paper proposes a new protocol using multifactor authentication system that is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-11-15 Ayu Tiwari , Sudip Sanyal , Ajith Abraham , Svein Johan Knapskog , Sugata Sanyal

One of the applications of quantum technology is to use quantum states and measurements to communicate which offers more reliable security promises. Quantum data hiding, which gives the source party the ability of sharing data among…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Xingyao Wu , Jianxin Chen

Establishing and sustaining Metaverse service necessitates an unprecedented scale of resources. This paper considers the deployment of Metaverse service in a cloud-edge resource architecture, which can satisfy the escalating demand for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yanwei Gong , Xiaolin Chang , Jelena Mišić , Vojislav B. Mišić , Yingying Yao

This paper introduces an efficient and spontaneous privacy-preserving protocol for vehicular ad-hoc networks based on revocable ring signature. The proposed protocol has three appealing characteristics: First, it offers conditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-09-10 Hu Xiong , Matei Ripeanu , Zhiguang Qin

This paper puts forward a safe mechanism of data transmission to tackle the security problem of information which is transmitted in Internet. The encryption standards such as DES (Data Encryption Standard), AES (Advanced Encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-10-11 Shaik Rasool , G. Sridhar , K. Hemanth Kumar , P. Ravi Kumar