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The five-qubit entangled state functions as a quantum channel. The proposed scheme uses mutually unbiased bases particles as decoy particles and performs unitary operations on these decoy particles, applying the functional values of symmetric bivariate polynomial. As such, eavesdropping detection and identity authentication can both be executed. The security analysis shows that our scheme can neither be disavowed by the signatory nor denied by the verifier, and it cannot be forged by any malicious attacker.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e24010111","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,11]],"date-time":"2022-01-11T14:05:07Z","timestamp":1641909907000},"page":"111","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":29,"title":["A Verifiable Arbitrated Quantum Signature Scheme Based on Controlled Quantum Teleportation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5804-5963","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dianjun","family":"Lu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mathematics and Statistics, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi\u2019an 710119, China"},{"name":"School of Mathematics and Statistics, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhihui","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mathematics and Statistics, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi\u2019an 710119, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jing","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mathematics and Statistics, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi\u2019an 710119, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhaowei","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mathematics and Statistics, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi\u2019an 710119, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Bennett, C.H., and Brassard, G. 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