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Original Articles

Using an efficient hash chain and delaying function to improve an e-lottery scheme

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Pages 967-970 | Received 24 Oct 2006, Accepted 20 Feb 2007, Published online: 01 Aug 2007
 

Abstract

A multi-level hash chain structure is employed to improve a fair e-lottery scheme which ensures secure winning number generation and verification and to make verification more efficient. In addition, an implementation of a delaying function based on a secure hash function is presented.

Acknowledgements

This research was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 60573053 and 60672049) and the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (No. 20050512002). The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees and the editors for their helpful suggestions.

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