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Asymptotically Secure Quantum Oblivious Transfer

Quantum Physics 2010-04-29 v3

Abstract

Due to the commonly known impossibility results, unconditional security for oblivious transfer is seen as impossible even in the quantum world. In this paper, we try to overcome these impossibility results by proposing a protocol which is asymptotically secure. The protocol makes use of the basic properties of non-orthogonal quantum states. Apart from security, the advantages of our protocol include the fact that the honest players do not need to have quantum memory or create entanglement between individual qubits. The relation of our work to the known impossibility results is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1004.1871,
  title  = {Asymptotically Secure Quantum Oblivious Transfer},
  author = {K. Y. Cheong and Min-Hsiu Hsieh and Takeshi Koshiba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.1871},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the authors because the scheme may be insecure, due to an attack provided by Cr\'epeau Claude.

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