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We characterize the complete set of protocols that may be used to securely encrypt n quantum bits using secret and random classical bits. In addition to the application of such quantum encryption protocols to quantum data security, our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Oscar Boykin , Vwani Roychowdhury

Optical encryption inherently provides strong security advantages, with hybrid optoelectronic systems offering additional degrees of freedom by integrating optical and algorithmic domains. However, existing optical encryption schemes…

Quantum fully homomorphic encryption (QFHE) promises secure delegated quantum computation but has been impeded by the prohibitive quantum resource demands of existing constructions. This paper introduces a unified framework that achieves an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Fengxia Liu , Zixian Gong , Kun Tian , Yi Zhang , Zhiming Zheng , Maozhi Xu

Quantum public-key encryption (PKE), where public-keys and/or ciphertexts can be quantum states, is an important primitive in quantum cryptography. Unlike classical PKE (e.g., RSA or ECC), quantum PKE can leverage quantum-secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Nishant Rodrigues , Walter O. Krawec , Brad Lackey , Deb Mukhopadhyay , Bing Wang

Quantum key distribution (QKD) promises everlasting security based on the laws of physics. Most common protocols are grouped into two distinct categories based on the degrees of freedom used to carry information, which can be either…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Jasminder S. Sidhu , Rocco Maggi , Saverio Pascazio , Cosmo Lupo

Shannon's perfect-secrecy theorem states that a perfect encryption system that yields zero information to the adversary must be a one-time pad (OTP) with the keys randomly generated and never reused. In this work we design the first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Zixuan Hu , Zhenyu Li

Group-based cryptography is a relatively unexplored family in post-quantum cryptography, and the so-called Semidirect Discrete Logarithm Problem (SDLP) is one of its most central problems. However, the complexity of SDLP and its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Christopher Battarbee , Delaram Kahrobaei , Ludovic Perret , Siamak F. Shahandashti

Quantum secret sharing (QSS) is one of the basic communication primitives in future quantum networks which addresses part of the basic cryptographic tasks of multiparty communication and computation. Nevertheless, it is a challenge to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Ao Shen , Xiao-Yu Cao , Yang Wang , Yao Fu , Jie Gu , Wen-Bo Liu , Chen-Xun Weng , Hua-Lei Yin , Zeng-Bing Chen

We present a general framework encompassing a number of continuous-variable quantum key distribution protocols, including standard one-way protocols, measurement-device-independent protocols as well as some two-way protocols, or any other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Shouvik Ghorai , Eleni Diamanti , Anthony Leverrier

We propose a public key encryption cryptosystem based on solutions of linear equation systems with predefinition of input parameters through shared secret computation for factorizable substitutions. The existence of multiple equivalent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Gennady Khalimov , Yevgen Kotukh

In this work, we present an experimental deployment of a new design for combined quantum key distribution (QKD) and post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Novel to our system is the dynamic obfuscation of the QKD-PQC sequence of operations, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Anju Rani , Xiaoyu Ai , Aman Gupta , Ravi Singh Adhikari , Robert Malaney

Aiming at a ternary quantum logic circuit, four symmetric ternary quantum homomorphic encryption schemes, based on ternary quantum one-time protocol, were presented. First, for a one-qutrit rotation gate, a homomorphic quantum encryption…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yuqi Wang , Kun She , Qingbin Luo , Fan Yang , Chao Zhao

The emergence of Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computers (CRQCs) presents a critical threat to classical cryptographic systems, particularly widely adopted protocols such as RSA, Diffie-Hellman (DH), and Elliptic Curve Cryptography…

The emergence of quantum computing presents profound challenges to existing cryptographic infrastructures, whilst the development of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) has raised concerns regarding privacy preservation and excessive…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Serhan W. Bahar

Fully homomorphic encryption is a kind of encryption scheme, which enables arbitrary computation on encrypted data without accessing the data. We present the quantum version of fully homomorphic encryption scheme, which is constructed based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-16 Min Liang , Li Yang

Quantum Key Distribution is a secret distribution technique that requires an authenticated channel. This channel is usually created on top of an un-authenticated communication medium using unconditionally secure Message Authentication Codes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-26 Sébastien Kunz-Jacques , Paul Jouguet

Quantum secret sharing (QSS) plays a pivotal role in multiparty quantum communication, ensuring the secure distribution of private information among multiple parties. However, the security of QSS schemes can be compromised by attacks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Tianqi Liu , Jiancheng Lai , Zhenhua Li , Tao Li

We propose a schematic setup of quantum key distribution (QKD) with an improved secret key rate based on high-dimensional quantum states. Two degrees-of-freedom of a single photon, orbital angular momentum modes, and multi-path modes, are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Yonggi Jo , Hee Su Park , Seung-Woo Lee , Wonmin Son

Quantum computing has entered fast development track since Shor's algorithm was proposed in 1994. Multi-cloud services of quantum computing farms are currently available. One of which, IBM quantum computing, presented a road map showing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Alex He , Dafu Lou , Eric She , Shangjie Guo , Hareesh Watson , Sibyl Weng , Maria Perepechaenko , Rand Kuang

Another threat is the development of large quantum computers, which have a high likelihood of breaking the high popular security protocols because it can use both Shor and Grover algorithms. In order to fix this looming threat,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Navin Chhibber , Amber Rastogi , Ankur Mahida , Vatsal Gupta , Piyush Ranjan