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Bit Commitment from Non-Signaling Correlations

Quantum Physics 2011-10-03 v2

Abstract

Central cryptographic functionalities such as encryption, authentication, or secure two-party computation cannot be realized in an information-theoretically secure way from scratch. This serves as a motivation to study what (possibly weak) primitives they can be based on. We consider as such starting points general two-party input-output systems that do not allow for message transmission, and show that they can be used for realizing unconditionally secure bit commitment as soon as they are non-trivial, i.e., cannot be securely realized from distributed randomness only.

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@article{arxiv.0811.3589,
  title  = {Bit Commitment from Non-Signaling Correlations},
  author = {Severin Winkler and Juerg Wullschleger and Stefan Wolf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.3589},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

New title. Changes in the introduction and the preliminaries

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