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We propose a protocol where one can exploit dual quantum and classical channels to achieve perfect ``cloning'' and ``orthogonal-complementing'' of an unknown state with a minimal assistance from a state preparer (without revealing what the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Arun Kumar Pati

Most cryptosystems are defined over finite algebraic structures where arithmetic operations are performed modulo natural numbers. This applies to private key as well as to public key ciphers. No secure cryptosystems defined over the field…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Youssef Hassoun

It is an important question to find constructions of quantum cryptographic protocols which rely on weaker computational assumptions than classical protocols. Recently, it has been shown that oblivious transfer and multi-party computation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Alex B. Grilo , Or Sattath , Quoc-Huy Vu

Randomized encoding is a powerful cryptographic primitive with various applications such as secure multiparty computation, verifiable computation, parallel cryptography, and complexity lower-bounds. Intuitively, randomized encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-05 Tomoyuki Morimae

Quantum communication is an important application that derives from the burgeoning field of quantum information and quantum computation. Focusing on secure communication, quantum cryptography has two major directions of development, namely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Junxu Li , Zixuan Hu , Sabre Kais

Post-quantum cryptography currently rests on a small number of hardness assumptions, posing significant risks should any one of them be compromised. This vulnerability motivates the search for new and cryptographically versatile assumptions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Jonathan Z. Lu , Alexander Poremba , Yihui Quek , Akshar Ramkumar

In this paper, we prove classical coin-flipping secure in the presence of quantum adversaries. The proof uses a recent result of Watrous [Wat09] that allows quantum rewinding for protocols of a certain form. We then discuss two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-19 Ivan Damgaard , Carolin Lunemann

Homomorphic encryption is a sophisticated encryption technique that allows computations on encrypted data to be done without the requirement for decryption. This trait makes homomorphic encryption appropriate for safe computation in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Nimish Jain , Aswani Kumar Cherukuri

Recent research in quantum cryptography has led to the development of schemes that encrypt and authenticate quantum messages with computational security. The security definitions used so far in the literature are asymptotic, game-based, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 Fabio Banfi , Ueli Maurer , Christopher Portmann , Jiamin Zhu

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 the first leveled fully homomorphic encryption scheme for quantum circuits with classical keys. The scheme allows a classical client to blindly delegate a quantum computation to a quantum server: an honest server is able to run…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Urmila Mahadev

Post-quantum cryptography studies the security of classical, i.e. non-quantum cryptographic protocols against quantum attacks. Until recently, the considered adversaries were assumed to use quantum computers and behave like classical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Maria Velema

This paper presents a prepare-and-measure scheme using $N$-dimensional quantum particles as information carriers where $N$ is a prime power. One of the key ingredients used to resist eavesdropping in this scheme is to depolarize all Pauli…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 H. F. Chau

This paper first describes an `obfuscating' compiler technology developed for encrypted computing, then examines if the trivial case without encryption produces much-sought indistinguishability obfuscation.

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Peter T. Breuer , Jonathan P. Bowen

A blind decryption scheme enables a user to query decryptions from a decryption server without revealing information about the plaintext message. Such schemes are useful, for example, for the implementation of privacy preserving encrypted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-10-22 Juha Partala

The lack of perfect randomness can cause significant problems in securing communication between two parties. McInnes and Pinkas proved that unconditionally secure encryption is impossible when the key is sampled from a weak random source.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-20 J. Bouda , M. Pivoluska , M. Plesch

A central challenge in data security is not just preventing theft, but detecting whether it has occurred. Classically, this is impossible because a perfect copy leaves no evidence. Quantum mechanics, on the other hand, forbids general…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Vipul Goyal , Justin Raizes

Copy Detection Patterns (CDPs) are crucial elements in modern security applications, playing a vital role in safeguarding industries such as food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Current performance evaluations of CDPs predominantly rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Joakim Tutt , Slava Voloshynovskiy

This paper deals with the application of list decoding of Reed--Solomon codes to a concatenated code for key reproduction using Physical Unclonable Functions. The resulting codes achieve a higher error-correction performance at the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Sven Puchinger , Sven Müelich , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Martin Bossert

We introduce the notion of "non-malleability" of a quantum state encryption scheme (in dimension d): in addition to the requirement that an adversary cannot learn information about the state, here we demand that no controlled modification…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Andris Ambainis , Jan Bouda , Andreas Winter