A privacy-preserving quantum sealed-bid auction protocol with EPR pairs. (English) Zbl 1508.81670
Summary: In view of the privacy-preserving problem and the high resource consumption in post-confirmation mechanism of the existing systems, a new quantum sealed-bid auction protocol is proposed. We employ two auction assistants to transmit bids with EPR pairs from bidders to the auctioneer. Nested calls to a hash function and a bulletin board are used to implement the post-confirmation mechanism, which is simple and resource-saving. Furthermore, we analyze the security and completeness of the protocol. The scheme is proved to be secure against well-known attacks and meets all requirements of a secure sealed-bid auction.
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