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We study the problem of encrypting and authenticating quantum data in the presence of adversaries making adaptive chosen plaintext and chosen ciphertext queries. Classically, security games use string copying and comparison to detect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Gorjan Alagic , Tommaso Gagliardoni , Christian Majenz

Game-playing proofs constitute a powerful framework for non-quantum cryptographic security arguments, most notably applied in the context of indifferentiability. An essential ingredient in such proofs is lazy sampling of random primitives.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-14 Jan Czajkowski , Christian Majenz , Christian Schaffner , Sebastian Zur

In this paper, we continue the line of work initiated by Boneh and Zhandry at CRYPTO 2013 and EUROCRYPT 2013 in which they formally define the notion of unforgeability against quantum adversaries specifically, for classical message…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Mina Doosti , Mahshid Delavar , Elham Kashefi , Myrto Arapinis

Copy-protection allows a software distributor to encode a program in such a way that it can be evaluated on any input, yet it cannot be "pirated" - a notion that is impossible to achieve in a classical setting. Aaronson (CCC 2009) initiated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Andrea Coladangelo , Christian Majenz , Alexander Poremba

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

Quantum copy-protection, introduced by Aaronson (CCC'09), uses the no-cloning principle of quantum mechanics to protect software from being illegally distributed. Constructing copy-protection has been an important problem in quantum…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Prabhanjan Ananth , Fatih Kaleoglu

Quantum cryptographic definitions are often sensitive to the number of copies of the cryptographic states revealed to an adversary. Making definitional changes to the number of copies accessible to an adversary can drastically affect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Prabhanjan Ananth , Eli Goldin

Uncloneable encryption, first introduced by Broadbent and Lord (TQC 2020) is a quantum encryption scheme in which a quantum ciphertext cannot be distributed between two non-communicating parties such that, given access to the decryption…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Srijita Kundu , Ernest Y. -Z. Tan

In this note, we consider the setting of uncloneable encryption satisfying uncloneable indistinguishability, a form of symmetric key encryption that prevents the cloning of ciphertexts in a very strong sense. Our goal is to minimize the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 James Bartusek , Eli Goldin

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

We introduce a quantum cloning game in which $k$ separate collaborative parties receive a classical input, determining which of them has to share a maximally entangled state with an additional party (referee). We provide the optimal winning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Llorenç Escolà-Farràs , Léo Colisson Palais , Florian Speelman

Quantum states cannot be cloned. I show how to extend this property to classical messages encoded using quantum states, a task I call "uncloneable encryption." An uncloneable encryption scheme has the property that an eavesdropper Eve not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Gottesman

Quantum copy protection uses the unclonability of quantum states to construct quantum software that provably cannot be pirated. Copy protection would be immensely useful, but unfortunately little is known about how to achieve it in general.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Scott Aaronson , Jiahui Liu , Qipeng Liu , Mark Zhandry , Ruizhe Zhang

This thesis explores foundational aspects of quantum information theory and quantum cryptography. First, we investigate quantum correlations in interactive settings, including the CHSH and graph isomorphism games. We aim to distinguish…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Pierre Botteron

We study uncloneable quantum encryption schemes for classical messages as recently proposed by Broadbent and Lord. We focus on the information-theoretic setting and give several limitations on the structure and security of these schemes:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-05 Christian Majenz , Christian Schaffner , Mehrdad Tahmasbi

Unclonable cryptography utilizes the principles of quantum mechanics to addresses cryptographic tasks that are impossible classically. We introduce a novel unclonable primitive in the context of secret sharing, called unclonable secret…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Prabhanjan Ananth , Vipul Goyal , Jiahui Liu , Qipeng Liu

Uncloneable decryptors are encryption schemes (with classical plaintexts and ciphertexts) with the added functionality of deriving uncloneable quantum states, called decryptors, which could be used to decrypt ciphers without knowledge of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Or Sattath , Shai Wyborski

Unconditionally secure bit commitment and coin flipping are known to be impossible in the classical world. Bit commitment is known to be impossible also in the quantum world. We introduce a related new primitive - {\em quantum bit escrow}.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dorit Aharonov , Amnon Ta-Shma , Umesh Vazirani , Andrew Yao

Coin flipping is a cryptographic primitive in which two spatially separated players, who in principle do not trust each other, wish to establish a common random bit. If we limit ourselves to classical communication, this task requires…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Guido Berlin , Gilles Brassard , Felix Bussieres , Nicolas Godbout

Quantum cryptography leverages many unique features of quantum information in order to construct cryptographic primitives that are oftentimes impossible classically. In this work, we build on the no-cloning principle of quantum mechanics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 Prabhanjan Ananth , Alexander Poremba , Vinod Vaikuntanathan