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This paper demonstrates that applying spin reversal transformations (SRT), commonly known as a sufficient method for privacy enhancement in problems solved using quantum annealing, does not guarantee privacy for all possible cases. We show…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mateusz Leśniak , Michał Wroński

In this letter we introduce the problem of secrecy reversibility. This asks when two honest parties can distill secret bits from some tripartite distribution $p_{XYZ}$ and transform secret bits back into $p_{XYZ}$ at equal rates using local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Eric Chitambar , Ben Fortescue , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

The security of quantum key distribution protocols is guaranteed by the laws of quantum mechanics. However, a precise analysis of the security properties requires tools from both classical cryptography and information theory. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Marco Tomamichel , Jesus Martinez-Mateo , Christoph Pacher , David Elkouss

We show that covert secret key expansion is possible using a public authenticated classical channel and a quantum channel largely under control of an adversary, which we precisely define. We also prove a converse result showing that, under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Matthieu R. Bloch

We study the anonymization technique of k-anonymity family for preserving privacy in the publication of microdata. Although existing approaches based on generalization can provide good enough protections, the generalized table always…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Boyu Li , Jianfeng Ma , Junhua Xi , Lili Zhang , Tao Xie , Tongfei Shang

Quantum privacy amplification is a central task in quantum cryptography. Given shared randomness, which is initially correlated with a quantum system held by an eavesdropper, the goal is to extract uniform randomness which is decoupled from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Robert Salzmann , Nilanjana Datta

The task of compressing classical information in the one-shot scenario is studied in the setting where the decompressor additionally has access to some given quantum side information. In this hybrid classical-quantum version of the famous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-27 Joseph M. Renes , Renato Renner

Synthetic data inherits the differential privacy guarantees of the model used to generate it. Additionally, synthetic data may benefit from privacy amplification when the generative model is kept hidden. While empirical studies suggest this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Clément Pierquin , Aurélien Bellet , Marc Tommasi , Matthieu Boussard

We have improved the hardware and software of our autocompensating system for quantum key distribution by replacing bulk optical components at the end stations with fiber-optic equivalents and implementing software that synchronizes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Donald S. Bethune , Martha Navarro , William P. Risk

When applying differential privacy to sensitive data, we can often improve performance using external information such as other sensitive data, public data, or human priors. We propose to use the learning-augmented algorithms (or algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Mikhail Khodak , Kareem Amin , Travis Dick , Sergei Vassilvitskii

We derive a formal connection between quantum data hiding and quantum privacy, confirming the intuition behind the construction of bound entangled states from which secret bits can be extracted. We present three main results. First, we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Matthias Christandl , Roberto Ferrara

This paper aims at answering the following two questions in privacy-preserving data analysis and publishing: What formal privacy guarantee (if any) does $k$-anonymization provide? How to benefit from the adversary's uncertainty about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Ninghui Li , Wahbeh Qardaji , Dong Su

We prove the conjectured existence of Bound Information, a classical analog of bound entanglement, in the multipartite scenario. We give examples of tripartite probability distributions from which it is impossible to extract any kind of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Acin , J. I. Cirac , Ll. Masanes

Ask how the quantum compression of ensembles of pure states is affected by the availability of entanglement, and in settings where the encoder has access to side information. We find the optimal asymptotic quantum rate and the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 Zahra Baghali Khanian , Andreas Winter

Differential privacy is among the most prominent techniques for preserving privacy of sensitive data, oweing to its robust mathematical guarantees and general applicability to a vast array of computations on data, including statistical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Naoise Holohan , Stefano Braghin

Data mining is a key technology in big data analytics and it can discover understandable knowledge (patterns) hidden in large data sets. Association rule is one of the most useful knowledge patterns, and a large number of algorithms have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-15 Shenggang Ying , Mingsheng Ying , Yuan Feng

We study the problem of data disclosure with privacy guarantees, wherein the utility of the disclosed data is ensured via a \emph{hard distortion} constraint. Unlike average distortion, hard distortion provides a deterministic guarantee of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Jiachun Liao , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar , Flavio P. Calmon

Covert and secret quantum key distribution aims at generating information-theoretically secret bits between distant legitimate parties in a manner that remains provably undetectable by an adversary. We propose a framework in which to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Matthieu R. Bloch

The task of privacy amplification, in which Alice holds some partially secret information with respect to an adversary Eve and wishes to distill it until it is completely secret, is known to be solvable almost optimally both in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Rotem Arnon , Amnon Ta-Shma

A missing piece in quantum information theory, with very few exceptions, has been to provide the random coding exponents for quantum information-processing protocols. We remedy the situation by providing these exponents for a variety of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Naresh Sharma