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Owing to its fundamental principles, quantum theory holds the promise to enhance the security of modern cryptography, from message encryption to anonymous communication, digital signatures, online banking, leader election, one-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Mathieu Bozzio , Claude Crépeau , Petros Wallden , Philip Walther

In this paper, we propose a novel construction for a symmetric encryption scheme, referred as SEBQ which is based on the structure of quasigroup. We utilize concepts of chaining like mode of operation and present a block cipher with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Satish Kumar , Harshdeep Singh , Indivar Gupta , Ashok Ji Gupta

We propose a modification of the classical Vernam cipher based on properties of one-dimensional quasicrystals. The method uses the sequence of quasicrystal minimal distances as an one-time pad. The main advantages are strict aperiodicity of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Maryna Nesterenko , Severin Posta

We propose a probabilistic quantum algorithm that decides whether a monochrome picture matches a given template (or one out of a set of templates). As a major advantage to classical pattern recognition, the algorithm just requires a few…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-28 Gernot Schaller , Ralf Schützhold

The analysis of quantum algorithms which query random, invertible permutations has been a long-standing challenge in cryptography. Many techniques which apply to random oracles fail, or are not known to generalize to this setting. As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Joseph Carolan

Quantum security improves cryptographic protocols by applying quantum mechanics principles, assuring resistance to both quantum and conventional computer attacks. This work addresses these issues by integrating Quantum Key Distribution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Tasmin Karim , Md. Shazzad Hossain Shaon , Md. Fahim Sultan , Mst Shapna Akter

Control related data, such as system states and inputs or controller specifications, is often sensitive. Meanwhile, the increasing connectivity of cloud-based or networked control results in vast amounts of such data, which poses a privacy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-10 Philipp Binfet , Nils Schlüter , Moritz Schulze Darup

We theoretically propose a symmetric encryption scheme based on Restricted Boltzmann Machines that functions as a probabilistic Enigma device, encoding information in the marginal distributions of visible states while utilizing bias…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-24 Bin Chen , Weichao Yu

Suppose we have n algorithms, quantum or classical, each computing some bit-value with bounded error probability. We describe a quantum algorithm that uses O(sqrt{n}) repetitions of the base algorithms and with high probability finds the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-03 Peter Hoyer , Michele Mosca , Ronald de Wolf

We provide a complete proof of the security of quantum cryptography against any eavesdropping attack including coherent measurements even in the presence of noise. Polarization-based cryptographic schemes are shown to be equivalent to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hoi-Kwong Lo , H. F. Chau

As an important branch of quantum secure multiparty computation, quantum private comparison (QPC) has attracted more and more attention recently. In this paper, according to the quantum implementation mechanism that these protocols used, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Wenjie Liu , Chao Liu , Haibin Wang , Tingting Jia

A block cipher is intended to be computationally indistinguishable from a random permutation of appropriate domain and range. But what are the properties of a random permutation? By the aid of exponential and ordinary generating functions,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-09 Nicolas T. Courtois , Gregory V. Bard , Shaun V. Ault

We develop a general framework for parameter estimation that allows only trusted parties to access the result and achieves optimal precision. The protocols are designed such that adversaries can access some information indeterministically,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Zixin Huang , Chiara Macchiavello , Lorenzo Maccone

Large-scale quantum computing is a significant threat to classical public-key cryptography. In strong "quantum access" security models, numerous symmetric-key cryptosystems are also vulnerable. We consider classical encryption in a model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-14 Gorjan Alagic , Stacey Jeffery , Maris Ozols , Alexander Poremba

We study the security of a specific authentication procedure of interest in the context of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD). It works as follows: use a secret but fixed Strongly Universal$_2$ (SU$_2$) hash function and encrypt the output tag…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-26 Aysajan Abidin , Jan-Åke Larsson

Barnum, Crepeau, Gottesman, Tapp, and Smith (quant-ph/0205128) proposed methods for authentication of quantum messages. The first method is an interactive protocol (TQA') based on teleportation. The second method is a noninteractive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-01 Patrick Hayden , Debbie W. Leung , Dominic Mayers

A symmetric encryption method based on properties of quasicrystals is proposed. The advantages of the cipher are strict aperiodicity and everywhere discontinuous property as well as the speed of computation, simplicity of implementation and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-10-02 Maryna Nesterenko , Jiri Patera , Dmytro Zhavrotskyj

We present the NMR implementation of a recently proposed quantum algorithm to find the parity of a permutation. In the usual qubit model of quantum computation, speedup requires the presence of entanglement and thus cannot be achieved by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-17 Shruti Dogra , Arvind , Kavita Dorai

Performance of cryptanalytic quantum search algorithms is mainly inferred from query complexity which hides overhead induced by an implementation. To shed light on quantitative complexity analysis removing hidden factors, we provide a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Panjin Kim , Kyung Chul Jeong , Daewan Han

Quantum computing is emerging as a significant threat to information protected by widely used cryptographic systems. Cryptographic methods, once deemed secure for decades, are now at risk of being compromised, posing a massive threat to the…