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Unconditionally Secure Quantum Payment System

Essam Al-Daoud

Published Feb 24, 2007• 5 citations
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Abstract

A potentially serious problem with current payment systems is that their underlying hard problems from number theory may be solved by either a quantum computer or unanticipated future advances in algorithms and hardware. A new quantum payment system is proposed in this paper. The suggested system makes use of fundamental principles of quantum mechanics to ensure the unconditional security without prior arrangements between customers and vendors. More specifically, the new system uses Greenberger-Home-Zeilinger (GHZ) states and Quantum Key Distribution to authenticate the vendors and guarantee the transaction integrity.

DOI
10.5281/zenodo.1075636

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A potentially serious problem with current payment systems is that their underlying hard problems from number theory may be solved by either a quantum computer or unanticipated future advances in algorithms and hardware. A new quantum payment system is proposed in this paper. The suggested system makes use of fundamental principles of quantum mechanics to ensure the unconditional security without prior arrangements between customers and vendors. More specifically, the new system uses Greenberger-Home-Zeilinger (GHZ) states and Quantum Key Distribution to authenticate the vendors and guarantee the transaction integrity.
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In this paper, a new E-payment system based on quantum blind and group signature is proposed. Existing E-payment systems based on classical cryptography cannot guarantee the security with the emergency of quantum computers. Compared to the existing E-payment system, our quantum E-payment scheme could protect not only the user's anonymity but also the inner structure of customer group. In addition, our system adopts quantum key distribution, one-time pad, and audit mechanism to ensure unconditional security.
This paper proposes a mobile quantum payment agreement based on the entanglement coherence of four-particle GHZ (Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger) state. Taking the four-particle GHZ state as the quantum channel, achieving the overall process of mobile payment through the physical properties of quantum mechanics and adopting the quantum key distribution, this protocol overcomes the limitation of computational security that generally exists in the traditional mobile payment system, and possesses the unconditional security in cryptography.
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Security and anonymity are essential to E-payment systems. However, existing E-payment systems will easily be broken into soon with the emergence of quantum computers. In this paper, we propose an E-payment system based on quantum group signature. In contrast to classical E-payment systems, our quantum E-payment system can protect not only the users' anonymity but also the inner structure of customer groups. Because of adopting the two techniques of quantum key distribution, a one-time pad and quantum group signature, unconditional security of our E-payment system is guaranteed.