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Two-Party Quantum Protocols Do Not Compose Securely Against Honest-But-Curious Adversaries

Quantum Physics 2009-06-15 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we build upon the model of two-party quantum computation introduced by Salvail et al. [SSS09] and show that in this model, only trivial correct two-party quantum protocols are weakly self-composable. We do so by defining a protocol \Pi, calling any non-trivial sub-protocol \pi N times and showing that there is a quantum honest-but-curious strategy that cannot be modeled by acting locally in every single copy of \pi. In order to achieve this, we assign a real value called "payoff" to any strategy for \Pi and show that that there is a gap between the highest payoff achievable by coherent and local strategies.

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@article{arxiv.0906.1671,
  title  = {Two-Party Quantum Protocols Do Not Compose Securely Against Honest-But-Curious Adversaries},
  author = {Louis Salvail and Miroslava Sotakova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.1671},
  year   = {2009}
}

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20 pages

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