Quantum-Secure Coin-Flipping and Applications
Abstract
In this paper, we prove classical coin-flipping secure in the presence of quantum adversaries. The proof uses a recent result of Watrous [Wat09] that allows quantum rewinding for protocols of a certain form. We then discuss two applications. First, the combination of coin-flipping with any non-interactive zero-knowledge protocol leads to an easy transformation from non-interactive zero-knowledge to interactive quantum zero-knowledge. Second, we discuss how our protocol can be applied to a recently proposed method for improving the security of quantum protocols [DFL+09], resulting in an implementation without set-up assumptions. Finally, we sketch how to achieve efficient simulation for an extended construction in the common-reference-string model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0903.3118,
title = {Quantum-Secure Coin-Flipping and Applications},
author = {Ivan Damgaard and Carolin Lunemann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.3118},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
14 pages, 7 figures. v3: minor improvements, updated references, corrected typos in definitions; additional section on efficient simulation