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Quantum entropic security and approximate quantum encryption

Quantum Physics 2010-04-16 v2

Abstract

We present full generalisations of entropic security and entropic indistinguishability to the quantum world where no assumption but a limit on the knowledge of the adversary is made. This limit is quantified using the quantum conditional min-entropy as introduced by Renato Renner. A proof of the equivalence between the two security definitions is presented. We also provide proofs of security for two different cyphers in this model and a proof for a lower bound on the key length required by any such cypher. These cyphers generalise existing schemes for approximate quantum encryption to the entropic security model.

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@article{arxiv.0707.0691,
  title  = {Quantum entropic security and approximate quantum encryption},
  author = {Simon Pierre Desrosiers and Frédéric Dupuis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.0691},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

Corrected mistakes in the proofs of Theorems 3 and 6; results unchanged. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

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