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Pseudorandom Isometries

Quantum Physics 2023-11-14 v3 Computational Complexity Cryptography and Security

Abstract

We introduce a new notion called Q{\cal Q}-secure pseudorandom isometries (PRI). A pseudorandom isometry is an efficient quantum circuit that maps an nn-qubit state to an (n+m)(n+m)-qubit state in an isometric manner. In terms of security, we require that the output of a qq-fold PRI on ρ\rho, for ρQ \rho \in {\cal Q}, for any polynomial qq, should be computationally indistinguishable from the output of a qq-fold Haar isometry on ρ\rho. By fine-tuning Q{\cal Q}, we recover many existing notions of pseudorandomness. We present a construction of PRIs and assuming post-quantum one-way functions, we prove the security of Q{\cal Q}-secure pseudorandom isometries (PRI) for different interesting settings of Q{\cal Q}. We also demonstrate many cryptographic applications of PRIs, including, length extension theorems for quantum pseudorandomness notions, message authentication schemes for quantum states, multi-copy secure public and private encryption schemes, and succinct quantum commitments.

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@article{arxiv.2311.02901,
  title  = {Pseudorandom Isometries},
  author = {Prabhanjan Ananth and Aditya Gulati and Fatih Kaleoglu and Yao-Ting Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.02901},
  year   = {2023}
}
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