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The traditional way for a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) user to join a quantum network is by authenticating themselves using pre-shared key material. While this approach is sufficient for small-scale networks, it becomes impractical as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Juan Antonio Vieira Giestinhas , Timothy Spiller

In this pioneering research paper, we present a groundbreaking exploration into the synergistic fusion of classical and quantum computing paradigms within the realm of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Our objective is to seamlessly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Sahil Nokhwal , Suman Nokhwal , Saurabh Pahune , Ankit Chaudhary

Quantum computing leverages quantum mechanics to achieve computational advantages over classical hardware, but the use of third-party quantum compilers in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era introduces risks of intellectual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Amal Raj , Vivek Balachandran

We propose various new techniques in quantum information theory, including a de Finetti style representation theorem for finite symmetric quantum states. As an application, we give a proof for the security of quantum key distribution which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Renato Renner

The privacy of communicating participants is often of paramount importance, but in some situations it is an essential condition. A typical example is a fair (secret) voting. We analyze in detail communication privacy based on quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mark Hillery , Mario Ziman , Vladimir Buzek , Martina Bielikova

We study the problem of constructing multi-source extractors in the quantum setting, which extract almost uniform random bits against quantum side information collected from several initially independent classical random sources. This is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 Kai-Min Chung , Xin Li , Xiaodi Wu

Data holders are increasingly seeking to protect their user's privacy, whilst still maximizing their ability to produce machine models with high quality predictions. In this work, we empirically evaluate various implementations of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Mohamed Ali Kaafar , Nicolas Kourtellis

We consider schemes for secret key distribution which use as a resource correlations that violate Bell inequalities. We provide the first security proof for such schemes, according to the strongest notion of security, the so called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Lluis Masanes

Recent oracle separations [Kretschmer, TQC'21, Kretschmer et. al., STOC'23] have raised the tantalizing possibility of building quantum cryptography from sources of hardness that persist even if the polynomial hierarchy collapses. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Dakshita Khurana , Kabir Tomer

Private set intersection (PSI) and private set union (PSU) are the crucial primitives in secure multiparty computation protocols, which enable several participants to jointly compute the intersection and union of their private sets without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Chong-Qiang Ye , Jian Li , Tianyu Ye , Xiaoyu Chen

Quantum computing is an emerging computing paradigm that can potentially transform several application areas by solving some of the intractable problems from classical domain. Similar to classical computing systems, quantum computing stack…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Swaroop Ghosh , Suryansh Upadhyay , Abdullah Ash Saki

We show how to implement cryptographic primitives based on the realistic assumption that quantum storage of qubits is noisy. We thereby consider individual-storage attacks, i.e. the dishonest party attempts to store each incoming qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-20 Stephanie Wehner , Christian Schaffner , Barbara Terhal

Secret sharing is a fundamental primitive in cryptography, and it can be achieved even with perfect security. However, the distribution of shares requires computational assumptions, which can compromise the overall security of the protocol.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Alex B. Grilo , Lucas Hanouz , Anne Marin

Distributed quantum computing is a promising computational paradigm for performing computations that are beyond the reach of individual quantum devices. Privacy in distributed quantum computing is critical for maintaining confidentiality…

We describe how any two-party quantum computation, specified by a unitary which simultaneously acts on the registers of both parties, can be privately implemented against a quantum version of classical semi-honest adversaries that we call…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-14 Frédéric Dupuis , Jesper Buus Nielsen , Louis Salvail

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is currently being discussed as a technology to safeguard communication in a future where quantum computers compromise traditional public-key cryptosystems. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive security…

Quantum Communications Networks using the properties of qubits, namely state superposition, no-cloning and entanglement, can enable the exchange of information in a very secure manner across optical links or free space. New innovations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 Dinesh Verma , Eden Figueroa , Gabriella Carini , Mark Ritter

Quantum computing has garnered significant attention in recent years from both academia and industry due to its potential to achieve a "quantum advantage" over classical computers. The advent of quantum computing introduces new challenges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-09 Zhengping Jay Luo , Tyler Stewart , Mourya Narasareddygari , Rui Duan , Shangqing Zhao

The ability to perform computations on encrypted data is a powerful tool for protecting a client's privacy, especially in today's era of cloud and distributed computing. In terms of privacy, the best solutions that classical techniques can…

Ever since its inception, cryptography has been caught in a vicious circle: Cryptographers keep inventing methods to hide information, and cryptanalysts break them, prompting cryptographers to invent even more sophisticated encryption…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Renato Renner , Ramona Wolf