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Key-agreement exists if and only if the "interactive vs non interactive Kolmogorov problem" is not in ioBPP: a short proof

Computational Complexity 2025-04-24 v1 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

Ball, Liu, Mazor and Pass proved that the existence of key-agreement protocols is equivalent to the hardness of a certain problem about interactive Kolmogorov complexity. We generalize the statement and give a short proof of the difficult implication.

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@article{arxiv.2504.16311,
  title  = {Key-agreement exists if and only if the "interactive vs non interactive Kolmogorov problem" is not in ioBPP: a short proof},
  author = {Bruno Bauwens and Bruno Loff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.16311},
  year   = {2025}
}