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Mayers, Lo and Chau proved unconditionally secure quantum bit commitment is impossible. It is shown that their proof is valid only for a particular model of quantum bit commitment encoding, in general it does not hold good. A different…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arindam Mitra

The no-cloning theorem forbids the creation of identical copies of qubits, thereby imposing strong limitations on quantum technologies. A recently-proposed protocol, encrypted cloning, showed, however, that the creation of perfect clones is…

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

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

Bit commitment is a fundamental cryptographic primitive and a cornerstone for numerous two-party cryptographic protocols, including zero-knowledge proofs. However, it has been proven that unconditionally secure bit commitment, both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Ziad Chaoui , Anna Pappa , Matteo Rosati

We initiate the study of two-party cryptographic primitives with unconditional security, assuming that the adversary's quantum memory is of bounded size. We show that oblivious transfer and bit commitment can be implemented in this model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivan Damgaard , Serge Fehr , Louis Salvail , Christian Schaffner

Functional encryption is a powerful cryptographic primitive that enables fine-grained access to encrypted data and underlies numerous applications. Although the ideal security notion for FE (simulation security) has been shown to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mohammed Barhoush , Arthur Mehta , Anne Müller , Louis Salvail

Unclonable cryptography utilizes the principles of quantum mechanics to addresses cryptographic tasks that are impossible classically. We introduce a novel unclonable primitive in the context of secret sharing, called unclonable secret…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Prabhanjan Ananth , Vipul Goyal , Jiahui Liu , Qipeng Liu

Methods of quantum mechanics promise information-theoretic security for various protocols in cryptography. However, impossibility of some cryptographic applications such as standard bit commitment, oblivious transfer, multiparty secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-03 Muhammad Nadeem

Computational security in cryptography has a risk that computational assumptions underlying the security are broken in the future. One solution is to construct information-theoretically-secure protocols, but many cryptographic primitives…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Taiga Hiroka , Tomoyuki Morimae , Ryo Nishimaki , Takashi Yamakawa

In modern cryptography, block encryption is a fundamental cryptographic primitive. However, it is impossible for block encryption to achieve the same security as one-time pad. Quantum mechanics has changed the modern cryptography, and lots…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Min Liang , Li Yang

Encrypted cloning enables the redundant storage of an unknown qubit while remaining compatible with the no-cloning theorem, since only one clone can later be recovered through key-consuming decryption. Because encryption in this protocol is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Gabriele Gianini , Omar Hasan , Corrrado Mio , Stelvio Cimato , Ernesto Damiani

In this paper, we continue the line of work initiated by Boneh and Zhandry at CRYPTO 2013 and EUROCRYPT 2013 in which they formally define the notion of unforgeability against quantum adversaries specifically, for classical message…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Mina Doosti , Mahshid Delavar , Elham Kashefi , Myrto Arapinis

Quantum cryptography is a rapidly-developing area which leverages quantum information to accomplish classically-impossible tasks. In many of these protocols, quantum states are used as long-term cryptographic keys. Typically, this is to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Omri Shmueli , Mark Zhandry

In the task cryptographers call bit commitment, one party encrypts a prediction in a way that cannot be decrypted until they supply a key, but has only one valid key. Bit commitment has many applications, and has been much studied, but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Adrian Kent

The unconditional security of a quantum key distribution protocol is often defined in terms of the accessible information, that is, the maximum mutual information between the distributed key S and the outcome of an optimal measurement on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Robert Koenig , Renato Renner , Andor Bariska , Ueli Maurer

In coin tossing two remote participants want to share a uniformly distributed random bit. At the least in the quantum version, each participant test whether or not the other has attempted to create a bias on this bit. It is requested that,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Dominic Mayers , Louis Salvail , Yoshie Chiba-Kohno

Computational entropies provide a framework for quantifying uncertainty and randomness under computational constraints. They play a central role in classical cryptography, underpinning the analysis and construction of primitives such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Noam Avidan , Rotem Arnon

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

Quantum cryptography leverages many unique features of quantum information in order to construct cryptographic primitives that are oftentimes impossible classically. In this work, we build on the no-cloning principle of quantum mechanics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 Prabhanjan Ananth , Alexander Poremba , Vinod Vaikuntanathan