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We investigate definitions of and protocols for multi-party quantum computing in the scenario where the secret data are quantum systems. We work in the quantum information-theoretic model, where no assumptions are made on the computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adam Smith

In this work, we propose a general protocol for distributed quantum computing that accommodates arbitrary unknown subroutines. It can be applied to scale up quantum computing through multi-chip interconnection, as well as to tasks such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 X. Xu , Y. -D. Liu , S. Shi , Y. -J. Wang , D. -S. Wang

One of the applications of quantum technology is to use quantum states and measurements to communicate which offers more reliable security promises. Quantum data hiding, which gives the source party the ability of sharing data among…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Xingyao Wu , Jianxin Chen

We reconsider and modify the second secure multi-party quantum addition protocol proposed in our original work. We show that the protocol is an anonymous multi-party quantum addition protocol rather than a secure multi-party quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Zhaoxu Ji , Peiru Fan , Atta Ur Rahman , Huanguo Zhang

We study the cryptographic primitive Oblivious Transfer; a composable construction of this resource would allow arbitrary multi-party computation to be carried out in a secure way, i.e. to compute functions in a distributed way while…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Lorenzo Laneve , Lidia del Rio

Delegated quantum computation enables a client with limited quantum capabilities to outsource computations to a more powerful quantum server while preserving correctness and privacy. Verification is crucial in this setting to ensure that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Fabian Wiesner , Anna Pappa

Cryptographic protocols are the backbone of our information society. This includes two-party protocols which offer protection against distrustful players. Such protocols can be built from a basic primitive called oblivious transfer. We…

We present attacks that show that unconditionally secure two-party classical computation is impossible for many classes of function. Our analysis applies to both quantum and relativistic protocols. We illustrate our results by showing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Roger Colbeck

Databases play a pivotal role in the contemporary World Wide Web and the world of cloud computing. Unfortunately, numerous privacy violations have recently garnered attention in the news. To enhance database privacy, we consider Oblivious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Yvo Desmedt , Aydin Abadi

We present a bit-string quantum oblivious transfer protocol based on single-qubit rotations. Our protocol is built upon a previously proposed quantum public-key protocol and its practical security relies on the laws of Quantum Mechanics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 J. Rodrigues , P. Mateus , N. Paunković , A. Souto

The main conceptual contribution of this paper is investigating quantum multiparty communication complexity in the setting where communication is \emph{oblivious}. This requirement, which to our knowledge is satisfied by all quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 François Le Gall , Daiki Suruga

We present a quantumly-enhanced protocol to achieve unconditionally secure delegated classical computation where the client and the server have both limited classical and quantum computing capacity. We prove the same task cannot be achieved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Vedran Dunjko , Theodoros Kapourniotis , Elham Kashefi

Oblivious transfer, a central functionality in modern cryptography, allows a party to send two one-bit messages to another who can choose one of them to read, remaining ignorant about the other, whereas the sender does not learn the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Wolf , Jürg Wullschleger

Client-server models enable computations to be hosted remotely on quantum servers. We present a novel protocol for realizing this task, with practical advantages when using technology feasible in the near term. Client tasks are realized as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 Xiaogang Qiang , Xiaoqi Zhou , Kanin Aungskunsiri , Hugo Cable , Jeremy L. O'Brien

We present a practical implementation of a secure multiparty computation application enabled by quantum oblivious transfer (QOT) on an entanglement-based physical layer. The QOT protocol uses polarization-encoded entangled states to share…

The ability to perform computations on encrypted data is a powerful tool for protecting privacy. Recently, protocols to achieve this on classical computing systems have been found. Here we present an efficient solution to the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 K. Fisher , A. Broadbent , L. K. Shalm , Z. Yan , J. Lavoie , R. Prevedel , T. Jennewein , K. J. Resch

Delegated quantum computing (DQC) enables limited clients to perform operations that are outside their capabilities remotely on a quantum server. Protocols for DQC are usually set up in the measurement-based quantum computation framework,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Fabian Wiesner , Jens Eisert , Anna Pappa

Recent experimental achievements motivate an ever-growing interest from companies starting to feel the limitations of classical computing. Yet, in light of ongoing privacy scandals, the future availability of quantum computing through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Elham Kashefi , Dominik Leichtle , Luka Music , Harold Ollivier

It had been widely claimed that quantum mechanics can protect private information during public decision in for example the so-called two-party secure computation. If this were the case, quantum smart-cards could prevent fake teller…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Hoi-Kwong Lo

We present a new simulation-secure quantum oblivious transfer (QOT) protocol based on one-way functions in the plain model. With a focus on practical implementation, our protocol surpasses prior works in efficiency, promising feasible…