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Characterized by integrity and non-repudiation, digital signatures play an essential role in real life. Quantum digital signatures, which outperform classical types generally in safety, have been widely used in secure communications. In this paper, a novel quantum signature scheme based on quantum encryption, XOR encryption and secret sharing without entanglement is designed. Furthermore, it can be extended to a quantum multi-signature scheme. Unlike existing schemes, it is more efficient in guaranteeing safety, more practical and does not need to prepare a large number of entanglements or operations.


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Project supported by Joint Funding Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (61370188), the Scientific Research Common Program of Beijing Municipal Commission of Education (KM202010015009, KM202110015004, KM201810017006), the Initial Funding for the Doctoral Program of BIGC (27170120003/020) and BIGC Project (Eb202101).
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Huang, XJ., Li, ZZ. & Li, ZC. Quantum Signature Scheme Based on Secret Sharing. Int J Theor Phys 61, 180 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-022-05171-1
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