Near-optimal extractors against quantum storage
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 , where is the source's entropy and the adversary's storage, together with a poly-logarithmic seed length. Another instantiation achieves a logarithmic key length, with a slightly smaller output length for any . In contrast, the previous best construction \cite{TS09} could only extract 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}
}
Comments
Some typos fixed.