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This work presents a novel method to generate secret keys shared between a legitimate node pair (Alice and Bob) to safeguard the communication between them from an unauthorized node (Eve). To this end, we exploit the {\it reciprocal carrier…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Waqas Aman , Aneeqa Ijaz , M. Mahboob Ur Rahman , Dushanta Nalin K. Jayakody , Haris Pervaiz

We determine the covert capacity for entanglement generation over a noisy quantum channel. While secrecy guarantees that the transmitted information remains inaccessible to an adversary, covert communication ensures that the transmission…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Ohad Kimelfeld , Boulat A. Bash , Uzi Pereg

Secure communication protocols are becoming increasingly important, e.g. for internet-based communication. Quantum key distribution allows two parties, commonly called Alice and Bob, to generate a secret sequence of 0s and 1s called a key…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-04-05 Antje Kohnle , Aluna Rizzoli

This paper introduces a multi-round interaction problem with privacy constraints between two agents that observe correlated data. The agents alternately share data with one another for a total of K rounds such that each agent initiates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Bahman Moraffah , Lalitha Sankar

We study a model of communication complexity that encompasses many well-studied problems, including classical and quantum communication complexity, the complexity of simulating distributions arising from bipartite measurements of shared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-08 Julien Degorre , Marc Kaplan , Sophie Laplante , Jérémie Roland

In the classical Secret-Key generation model, Common Randomness is generated by two terminals based on the observation of correlated components of a common source, while keeping it secret from a non-legitimate observer. It is assumed that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Nima Tavangaran , Holger Boche , Rafael F. Schaefer

This paper studies the one-way communication complexity of the subgroup membership problem, a classical problem closely related to basic questions in quantum computing. Here Alice receives, as input, a subgroup $H$ of a finite group $G$;…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Scott Aaronson , François Le Gall , Alexander Russell , Seiichiro Tani

We study a standard two-source model for common randomness (CR) generation in which Alice and Bob generate a common random variable with high probability of agreement by observing independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) samples of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Wafa Labidi , Rami Ezzine , Christian Deppe , Moritz Wiese , Holger Boche

In this paper we study interactive "one-shot" analogues of the classical Slepian-Wolf theorem. Alice receives a value of a random variable $X$, Bob receives a value of another random variable $Y$ that is jointly distributed with $X$.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Alexander Kozachinskiy

The Gap-Hamming-Distance problem arose in the context of proving space lower bounds for a number of key problems in the data stream model. In this problem, Alice and Bob have to decide whether the Hamming distance between their $n$-bit…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-17 Joshua Brody , Amit Chakrabarti

Quantum key distribution (QKD) enables Alice and Bob to exchange a secret key over a public, untrusted quantum channel. Compared to classical key exchange, QKD achieves everlasting security: after the protocol execution the key is secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Alex B. Grilo , Giulio Malavolta , Michael Walter , Tianwei Zhang

We introduce a simple model illustrating the role of context in communication and the challenge posed by uncertainty of knowledge of context. We consider a variant of distributional communication complexity where Alice gets some information…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Badih Ghazi , Ilan Komargodski , Pravesh Kothari , Madhu Sudan

The communication complexity of many fundamental problems reduces greatly when the communicating parties share randomness that is independent of the inputs to the communication task. Natural communication processes (say between humans)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Clément L. Canonne , Venkatesan Guruswami , Raghu Meka , Madhu Sudan

In this paper we study one-round key-agreement protocols analogous to Merkle's puzzles in the random oracle model. The players Alice and Bob are allowed to query a random permutation oracle $n$ times and upon their queries and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-03-24 Miroslava Sotakova

A basic two-terminal secret key generation model is considered, where the interactive communication rate between the terminals may be limited, and in particular may not be enough to achieve the maximum key rate. We first prove a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Jingbo Liu , Paul Cuff , Sergio Verdú

We consider the communication complexity of fundamental longest common prefix (Lcp) problems. In the simplest version, two parties, Alice and Bob, each hold a string, $A$ and $B$, and we want to determine the length of their longest common…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Philip Bille , Mikko Berggreen Ettienne , Roberto Grossi , Inge Li Gørtz , Eva Rotenberg

We derive lower bounds for tradeoffs between the communication C and space S for communicating circuits. The first such bound applies to quantum circuits. If for any function f with image Z the multicolor discrepancy of the communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Hartmut Klauck

In this paper we explore fundamental problems in randomized communication complexity such as computing Set Intersection on sets of size $k$ and Equality Testing between vectors of length $k$. Sa\u{g}lam and Tardos and Brody et al. showed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Dawei Huang , Seth Pettie , Yixiang Zhang , Zhijun Zhang

In this work we introduce an intermediate setting between quantum nonlocality and communication complexity problems. More precisely, we study the value of XOR games $G$ when Alice and Bob are allowed to use a limited amount of one-way…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Marius Junge , Carlos Palazuelos , Ignacio Villanueva

We study the question of how much classical communication is needed when Alice is given a classical description of a quantum state $|\psi\rangle$ for Bob to recover any expectation value $\langle \psi | M |\psi\rangle$ given an observable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Kaushik Sankar