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Quantum key distribution allows two parties, traditionally known as Alice and Bob, to establish a secure random cryptographic key if, firstly, they have access to a quantum communication channel, and secondly, they can exchange classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Christandl , Renato Renner , Artur Ekert

We study the one-way two-party communication complexity of Maximum Matching in the semi-robust setting where the edges of a maximum matching are randomly partitioned between Alice and Bob, but all remaining edges of the input graph are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Gabriel Cipriani Huete , Adithya Diddapur , Pavel Dvořák , Christian Konrad

A non-local box is an abstract device into which Alice and Bob input bits x and y respectively and receive outputs a and b respectively, where a, b are uniformly distributed and the parity of a+b equals xy. Such boxes have been central to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-11 Marc Kaplan , Iordanis Kerenidis , Sophie Laplante , Jérémie Roland

Consider $L$ users, who each hold private data, and one fusion center who must compute a function of the private data of the $L$ users. To accomplish this task, each user may utilize a public and noiseless broadcast channel in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Remi A. Chou , Joerg Kliewer

Two legitimate parties, referred to as Alice and Bob, wish to generate secret keys from the wireless channel in the presence of an eavesdropper, referred to as Eve, in order to use such keys for encryption and decryption. In general, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Nasser Aldaghri , Hessam Mahdavifar

Suppose that a transmitter Alice potentially wishes to communicate with a receiver Bob over an adversarially jammed binary channel. An active adversary James eavesdrops on their communication over a binary symmetric channel (BSC(q)), and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Qiaosheng Zhang , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi

Bit commitment is a fundamental cryptographic primitive in which Bob wishes to commit a secret bit to Alice. Perfectly secure bit commitment has been proven impossible through asynchronous exchange of classical and quantum information.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 T. Lunghi , J. Kaniewski , F. Bussieres , R. Houlmann , M. Tomamichel , A. Kent , N. Gisin , S. Wehner , H. Zbinden

In this paper, we propose a method of enciphering quantum states of two-state systems (qubits) for sending them in secrecy without entangled qubits shared by two legitimate users (Alice and Bob). This method has the following two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Hiroo Azuma , Masashi Ban

It is quite popular nowadays for researchers and data analysts holding different datasets to seek assistance from each other to enhance their modeling performance. We consider a scenario where different learners hold datasets with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-15 Jiawei Zhang , Yuhong Yang , Jie Ding

In a recent work (Ghazi et al., SODA 2016), the authors with Komargodski and Kothari initiated the study of communication with contextual uncertainty, a setup aiming to understand how efficient communication is possible when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Badih Ghazi , Madhu Sudan

In this paper we consider the problem of extracting secret key from an eavesdropped source $p_{XYZ}$ at a rate given by the conditional mutual information. We investigate this question under three different scenarios: (i) Alice ($X$) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-12 Eric Chitambar , Ben Fortescue , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

We consider the possibilities offered by Gaussian states and operations for two honest parties, Alice and Bob, to obtain privacy against a third eavesdropping party, Eve. We first extend the security analysis of the protocol proposed in M.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-30 Miguel Navascues , Antonio Acin

In recent years, neural networks have been used to implement symmetric cryptographic functions for secure communications. Extending this domain, the proposed approach explores the application of asymmetric cryptography within a neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Mina Cecilie Wøien , Ferhat Ozgur Catak , Murat Kuzlu , Umit Cali

Quantum secure direct communication is one of the important mode of quantum communication, which sends secret information through a quantum channel directly without setting up a prior key. Over the past decade, numerous protocols have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Jianyong Hu , Mingyong Jing , Peng Zhang , Qiangqiang Zhang , Huifang Hou , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia

The goal of two-party cryptography is to enable two parties, Alice and Bob, to solve common tasks without the need for mutual trust. Examples of such tasks are private access to a database, and secure identification. Quantum communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Jędrzej Kaniewski , Stephanie Wehner

We present efficient and practical algorithms for a large, distributed system of processors to achieve reliable computations in a secure manner. Specifically, we address the problem of computing a general function of several private inputs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Donald Rozinak Beaver

We propose a privacy-preserving Naive Bayes classifier and apply it to the problem of private text classification. In this setting, a party (Alice) holds a text message, while another party (Bob) holds a classifier. At the end of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Amanda Resende , Davis Railsback , Rafael Dowsley , Anderson C. A. Nascimento , Diego F. Aranha

Quantum resources may provide advantage over their classical counterparts. We say this as quantum advantage. Here we consider a single communication task to study different approaches of observing quantum advantage. We say this setting as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Saronath Halder , Alexander Streltsov

Bit commitment is a fundamental cryptographic primitive in which Alice wishes to commit a secret bit to Bob. Perfectly secure bit commitment between two mistrustful parties is impossible through asynchronous exchange of quantum information.…

A user's data is represented by a finite-valued random variable. Given a function of the data, a querier is required to recover, with at least a prescribed probability, the value of the function based on a query response provided by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Ajaykrishnan Nageswaran , Prakash Narayan