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We introduce a computational problem of distinguishing between the output of an ideal coarse-grained boson sampler and the output of a true random number generator, as a resource for cryptographic schemes, which are secure against…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Georgios M. Nikolopoulos

Security of the three-party quantum secret sharing (QSS) schemes based on entanglement and a collective eavesdropping check is analyzed in the case of considerable quantum channel losses. An opaque attack scheme is presented for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fu-Guo Deng , Xi-Han Li , Hong-Yu Zhou

The famous no-cloning principle has been shown recently to enable a number of uncloneable functionalities. Here we address for the first time unkeyed quantum uncloneablity, via the study of a complexity-theoretic tool that enables a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Anne Broadbent , Martti Karvonen , Sébastien Lord

Here we show that, in principle it is possible to clone (measure) a single arbitrary unknown quantum state of a spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particle (an electron) with arbitrary precision and with success probability tending to one, using protective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-24 C. S. Sudheer Kumar

The bounded quantum storage model aims to achieve security against computationally unbounded adversaries that are restricted only with respect to their quantum memories. In this work, we provide information-theoretic secure constructions in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Mohammed Barhoush , Louis Salvail

Known quantum error correction schemes are typically able to take advantage of only a limited class of classical error-correcting codes. Entanglement-assisted quantum error correction is a partial solution which made it possible to exploit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-24 Yuichiro Fujiwara

It is shown that a simplified version of the error correction code recently suggested by Shor exhibits manifestation of the quantum Zeno effect. Thus, under certain conditions, protection of an unknown quantum state is achieved. Error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Lev Vaidman , Lior Goldenberg , Stephen Wiesner

A new cryptographic tool, anonymous quantum key technique, is introduced that leads to unconditionally secure key distribution and encryption schemes that can be readily implemented experimentally in a realistic environment. If quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Horace P. Yuen

Quantum state exclusion is the task of identifying at least one state from a known set that was not used in the preparation of a quantum system. A set of quantum states is said to admit state exclusion if there exists a measurement whose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Debanjan Roy , Tathagata Gupta , Pratik Ghosal , Samrat Sen , Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay

Many combinatorial optimization problems admit a maximin fairness variant, where the aim is to find a distribution over possible solutions which maximizes an expected worst-case outcome. However, the support for an optimal distribution may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Bao Bach , Cameron Ibrahim , Reuben Tate , Jad Salem , Stephan Eidenbenz , Ilya Safro

Suppose we are given two identical copies of an unknown quantum state and we wish to delete one copy from among the given two copies. The quantum no-deletion principle restricts us from perfectly deleting a copy but it does not prohibit us…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Satyabrata Adhikari

We describe a class of programmable devices that can discriminate between two quantum states. We consider two cases. In the first, both states are unknown. One copy of each of the unknown states is provided as input, or program, for the two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Janos A. Bergou , Vladimir Buzek , Edgar Feldman , Ulrike Herzog , Mark Hillery

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

As quantum computers become available through multi-tenant cloud platforms, ensuring privacy against adversaries sharing the same quantum processing unit becomes critical. We introduce and explore \emph{covert quantum computing}, a new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Evan J. D. Anderson , Kaushik Datta , Boulat A. Bash

Quantum computing has demonstrated the potential to solve computationally intensive problems more efficiently than classical methods. Many software engineering tasks, such as test case selection, static analysis, code clone detection, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jianjun Zhao

The phenomenon of quantum erasure has long intrigued physicists, but has surprisingly found limited practical application. Here, we propose an erasure-based protocol for quantum key distribution (QKD) that promises inherent security against…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-24 Hatim Salih

In this work we study the quantum security of public key encryption schemes (PKE). Boneh and Zhandry (CRYPTO'13) initiated this research area for PKE and symmetric key encryption (SKE), albeit restricted to a classical indistinguishability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Tommaso Gagliardoni , Juliane Krämer , Patrick Struck

Quantum secret sharing is a method for sharing a secret quantum state among a number of individuals such that certain authorized subsets of participants can recover the secret shared state by collaboration and other subsets cannot. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Roozbeh Bassirian , Sadra Boreiri , Vahid Karimipour

As quantum computing continues to advance, the development of quantum-secure neural networks is crucial to prevent adversarial attacks. This paper proposes three quantum-secure design principles: (1) using post-quantum cryptography, (2)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Eric Yocam , Anthony Rizi , Mahesh Kamepalli , Varghese Vaidyan , Yong Wang , Gurcan Comert

This paper first describes an `obfuscating' compiler technology developed for encrypted computing, then examines if the trivial case without encryption produces much-sought indistinguishability obfuscation.

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Peter T. Breuer , Jonathan P. Bowen