Toward protocols for quantum-ensured privacy and secure voting
Marianna C. Bonanome, Vladimír Bužek, Mark S. Hillery, Mário Ziman · Physical Review A · 2011
We present a number of schemes that use quantum mechanics to preserve privacy, in particular, we show that entangled quantum states can be useful in maintaining privacy. We further develop our original proposal [see M. Hillery, M. Ziman, V. Bu\ifmmode \check{z}\else \v{z}\fi{}ek, and M. Bielikov\'a, Phys. Lett. A 349, 75 (2006)] for protecting privacy in voting, and examine its security under certain types of attacks, in particular dishonest voters and external eavesdroppers. A variation of these quantum-based schemes can be used for multiparty function evaluation. We consider functions corresponding to group multiplication of $N$ group elements, with each element chosen by a different party. We show how quantum mechanics can be useful in maintaining the privacy of the choices group elements.