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Near-optimal extractors against quantum storage

Quantum Physics 2010-03-31 v3

Abstract

We show that Trevisan's extractor and its variants \cite{T99,RRV99} are secure against bounded quantum storage adversaries. One instantiation gives the first such extractor to achieve an output length Θ(Kb)\Theta(K-b), where KK is the source's entropy and bb the adversary's storage, together with a poly-logarithmic seed length. Another instantiation achieves a logarithmic key length, with a slightly smaller output length Θ((Kb)/Kγ)\Theta((K-b)/K^\gamma) for any γ>0\gamma>0. In contrast, the previous best construction \cite{TS09} could only extract (K/b)1/15(K/b)^{1/15} bits. Some of our constructions have the additional advantage that every bit of the output is a function of only a polylogarithmic number of bits from the source, which is crucial for some cryptographic applications. Our argument is based on bounds for a generalization of quantum random access codes, which we call \emph{quantum functional access codes}. This is crucial as it lets us avoid the local list-decoding algorithm central to the approach in \cite{TS09}, which was the source of the multiplicative overhead.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0911.4680,
  title  = {Near-optimal extractors against quantum storage},
  author = {Anindya De and Thomas Vidick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.4680},
  year   = {2010}
}

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Some typos fixed.

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