Blind one-time signature and its applications

Abstract This manuscript presents a generic blind one-time signature scheme which is an integration of one-time signatures and blind signatures. It can be applied to anonymous electronic voting with the latest decision on voters’ intentions, date attachable electronic cash, and anonymous grading protocols. The proposed idea can be easily implemented on the blind signature schemes proposed in the literature without affecting their infrastructures and the additional computation is just hashing, where the security relies on the adopted hash function and the underlying blind signature scheme.