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Quantum homomorphic encryption from quantum codes

Quantum Physics 2018-10-31 v3

Abstract

The recent discovery of fully-homomorphic classical encryption schemes has had a dramatic effect on the direction of modern cryptography. Such schemes, however, implicitly rely on the assumptions that solving certain computation problems are intractable. Here we present a quantum encryption scheme which is homomorphic for arbitrary classical and quantum circuits which have at most some constant number of non-Clifford gates. Unlike classical schemes, the security of the scheme we present is information theoretic and hence independent of the computational power of an adversary.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1508.00938,
  title  = {Quantum homomorphic encryption from quantum codes},
  author = {Yingkai Ouyang and Si-Hui Tan and Joseph Fitzsimons},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.00938},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

8 pages, double column, 3 figures, strengthened security proof

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