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Position-Based Quantum Cryptography and the Garden-Hose Game

Quantum Physics 2012-10-17 v1 Cryptography and Security

Abstract

We study position-based cryptography in the quantum setting. We examine a class of protocols that only require the communication of a single qubit and 2n bits of classical information. To this end, we define a new model of communication complexity, the garden-hose model, which enables us to prove upper bounds on the number of EPR pairs needed to attack such schemes. This model furthermore opens up a way to link the security of position-based quantum cryptography to traditional complexity theory.

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@article{arxiv.1210.4353,
  title  = {Position-Based Quantum Cryptography and the Garden-Hose Game},
  author = {Florian Speelman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.4353},
  year   = {2012}
}

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MSc Thesis for University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2011, 34 pages

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