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Accumulation of Device-Independent Quantum Randomness against Time-Ordered No-Signalling Adversaries

Quantum Physics 2025-06-23 v1

Abstract

The question of security of practical device-independent protocols against no-signalling adversaries, the ultimate form of cryptographic security, has remained open. A key ingredient is to identify how the entropy in the raw outputs of a Bell test accumulates over nn sequential runs (termed time-ordered no-signalling) against a no-signalling adversary. Previous numerical and analytical investigations for small nn (5\leq 5) had suggested that the min-entropy might not accumulate linearly in contrast to the case of quantum adversaries. Here we point out that despite the findings for small nn, the min-entropy does in fact accumulate linearly for large nn. We illustrate the difference in randomness accumulation against quantum and no-signalling adversaries with the paradigmatic example of the Chained Bell test for which we analytically derive the min-entropy. Finally, we illustrate the power of the no-signalling adversary by providing a class of attacks that allow an eavesdropper to perfectly guess the outputs of one player in general bipartite Pseudotelepathy games.

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@article{arxiv.2506.17020,
  title  = {Accumulation of Device-Independent Quantum Randomness against Time-Ordered No-Signalling Adversaries},
  author = {Ravishankar Ramanathan and Yuan Liu and Yutian Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.17020},
  year   = {2025}
}

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18 pages, 2 figrues