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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to propose a secure mobile group-buying system for application on spontaneous group-buying websites.

Design/methodology/approach

The proposed mechanism uses the Schnorr digital signature technique.

Findings

The proposed scheme is able to satisfy many security requirements. The computation costs of each phase and party were also analyzed, and the communication cost of each phase was calculated.

Originality/value

The results indicate that the proposed scheme is suitable for real-world application.

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