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Unconditional security in quantum bit commitment

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The commitment of bits between two mutually distrustful parties is a powerful cryptographic primitive with which many cryptographic objectives can be achieved. It is widely believed that unconditionally secure quantum bit commitment is impossible due to quantum entanglement cheating, which is codified in a general impossibility theorem. Gaps in the proof of this impossibility theorem are found. An unconditionally secure bit commitment protocol utilizing anonymous quantum states and the no-clone theorem is presented below with a full security proof.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0106001,
  title  = {Unconditional security in quantum bit commitment},
  author = {Horace P. Yuen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0106001},
  year   = {2007}
}

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