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A central tenet of theoretical cryptography is the study of the minimal assumptions required to implement a given cryptographic primitive. One such primitive is the one-time memory (OTM), introduced by Goldwasser, Kalai, and Rothblum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Anne Broadbent , Sevag Gharibian , Hong-Sheng Zhou

One-time memories (OTM's) are simple tamper-resistant cryptographic devices, which can be used to implement one-time programs, a very general form of software protection and program obfuscation. Here we investigate the possibility of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-19 Yi-Kai Liu

One-time memories (OTM's) are simple, tamper-resistant cryptographic devices, which can be used to implement sophisticated functionalities such as one-time programs. Can one construct OTM's whose security follows from some physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Yi-Kai Liu

We show how oracles which only allow for classical query access can be used to construct a variety of quantum cryptographic primitives which do not require long-term quantum memory or global entanglement. Specifically, if a quantum party…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Lev Stambler

We present a construction of one-time memories (OTMs) using classical-accessible stateless hardware, building upon the work of Broadbent et al. and Behera et al.. Unlike the aforementioned work, our approach leverages quantum random access…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-09 Lev Stambler

Few primitives are as intertwined with the foundations of cryptography as Oblivious Transfer (OT). Not surprisingly, with the advent of quantum information processing, a major research path has emerged, aiming to minimize the requirements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Ricardo Faleiro , Manuel Goulão , Leonardo Novo , Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro

We construct simulation-secure one-time memories (OTM) in the random oracle model, and present a plausible argument for their security against quantum adversaries with bounded and adaptive depth. Our contributions include: (1) A simple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Lev Stambler

The meteoric rise in power and popularity of machine learning models dependent on valuable training data has reignited a basic tension between the power of running a program locally and the risk of exposing details of that program to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Sam Gunn , Ramis Movassagh

Quantum cryptography is a rapidly-developing area which leverages quantum information to accomplish classically-impossible tasks. In many of these protocols, quantum states are used as long-term cryptographic keys. Typically, this is to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Omri Shmueli , Mark Zhandry

One-time programs (Goldwasser, Kalai and Rothblum, CRYPTO 2008) are functions that can be run on any single input of a user's choice, but not on a second input. Classically, they are unachievable without trusted hardware, but the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Aparna Gupte , Jiahui Liu , Justin Raizes , Bhaskar Roberts , Vinod Vaikuntanathan

The bounded quantum storage model aims to achieve security against computationally unbounded adversaries that are restricted only with respect to their quantum memories. In this work, we provide information-theoretic secure constructions in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Mohammed Barhoush , Louis Salvail

One-time programs are modelled after a black box that allows a single evaluation of a function, and then self-destructs. Because software can, in principle, be copied, general one-time programs exists only in the hardware token model: it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-27 Anne Broadbent , Gus Gutoski , Douglas Stebila

One-time programs (OTPs) aim to let a user evaluate a program on a single input while revealing nothing else. Classical OTPs require hardware assumptions, and even with quantum information, OTPs for deterministic functionalities remain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Aparna Gupte , Jiahui Liu , Luowen Qian , Justin Raizes , Bhaskar Roberts , Mark Zhandry

The commodity-based cryptography is an alternative approach to realize conventionally impossible cryptographic primitives such as unconditionally secure bit-commitment by consuming pre-established correlation between distrustful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Seok Hyung Lie , Hyukjoon Kwon , M. S Kim , Hyunseok Jeong

Quantum-mechanical devices have the potential to transform cryptography. Most research in this area has focused either on the information-theoretic advantages of quantum protocols or on the security of classical cryptographic schemes…

Methods of quantum mechanics promise information-theoretic security for various protocols in cryptography. However, impossibility of some cryptographic applications such as standard bit commitment, oblivious transfer, multiparty secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-03 Muhammad Nadeem

One-time programs, computer programs which self-destruct after being run only once, are a powerful building block in cryptography and would allow for new forms of secure software distribution. However, ideal one-time programs have been…

Cryptography underpins the security of modern digital infrastructure, from cloud services to health data. However, many widely deployed systems will become vulnerable after the advent of scalable quantum computing. Although quantum-safe…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Homer A. Riva-Cambrin , Rahul Singh , Sanju Lama , Garnette R. Sutherland

We introduce Verifiable One-Time Programs (Ver-OTPs) and use them to construct single-round Open Secure Computation (OSC), a novel primitive enabling applications like (1) single-round sealed-bid auctions, (2) single-round and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Lev Stambler

Developments in scalable quantum networks rely critically on optical quantum memories, which are key components enabling the storage of quantum information. These memories play a pivotal role for entanglement distribution and long-distance…

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