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Advances in quantum computing introduce long-term security challenges for widely deployed public-key cryptographic systems used across blockchain platforms and decentralized applications. Although post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Dongping Liu , Aoyu Zhang , Luyao Zhang

The widely held belief that BQP strictly contains BPP raises fundamental questions: Upcoming generations of quantum computers might already be too large to be simulated classically. Is it possible to experimentally test that these systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-18 Dorit Aharonov , Michael Ben-Or , Elad Eban

We propose an efficient scheme for verifying quantum computations in the `high complexity' regime i.e. beyond the remit of classical computers. Previously proposed schemes remarkably provide confidence against arbitrarily malicious…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Richard Jozsa , Sergii Strelchuk

Quantum circuits are the fundamental representation of quantum algorithms and constitute valuable intellectual property (IP). Multiple quantum circuit obfuscation (QCO) techniques have been proposed in prior research to protect quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Hongyu Zhang , Yuntao Liu

Optical physical unclonable keys are currently considered to be rather promising candidates for the development of entity authentication protocols, which offer security against both classical and quantum adversaries. In this work we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Lukas Fladung , Georgios M. Nikolopoulos , Gernot Alber , Marc Fischlin

In a recent seminal work, Bitansky and Shmueli (STOC '20) gave the first construction of a constant round zero-knowledge argument for NP secure against quantum attacks. However, their construction has several drawbacks compared to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Nai-Hui Chia , Kai-Min Chung , Takashi Yamakawa

We show that if a language $L$ admits a public-coin unambiguous interactive proof (UIP) with round complexity $\ell$, where $a$ bits are communicated per round, then the batch language $L^{\otimes k}$, i.e. the set of $k$-tuples of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Bonnie Berger , Rohan Goyal , Matthew M. Hong , Yael Tauman Kalai

We revisit recent works by Don, Fehr, Majenz and Schaffner and by Liu and Zhandry on the security of the Fiat-Shamir transformation of $\Sigma$-protocols in the quantum random oracle model (QROM). Two natural questions that arise in this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Jelle Don , Serge Fehr , Christian Majenz

We show that any number of parties can coherently exchange any one pure quantum state for another, without communication, given prior shared entanglement. Two applications of this fact to the study of multi-prover quantum interactive proof…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-11 Debbie Leung , Ben Toner , John Watrous

We address the problem of efficiently verifying a commitment in a two-party computation. This addresses the scenario where a party P1 commits to a value $x$ to be used in a subsequent secure computation with another party P2 that wants to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Nitin Agrawal , James Bell , Adrià Gascón , Matt J. Kusner

This paper presents an enhanced post-quantum key agreement protocol based on R\'{e}nyi entropy, addressing vulnerabilities in the original construction while preserving information-theoretic security properties. We develop a theoretical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ruopengyu Xu , Chenglian Liu

We investigate two resources whose effects on quantum interactive proofs remain poorly understood: the promise of unentanglement, and the verifier's ability to condition on an intermediate measurement, which we call post-measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Sabee Grewal , William Kretschmer

The round complexity of interactive proof systems is a key question of practical and theoretical relevance in complexity theory and cryptography. Moreover, results such as QIP = QIP(3) (STOC'00) show that quantum resources significantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Alex B. Grilo , Philippe Lamontagne

Achieving quantum computational advantage requires solving a classically intractable problem on a quantum device. Natural proposals rely upon the intrinsic hardness of classically simulating quantum mechanics; however, verifying the output…

Entanglement-based attacks, which are subtle and powerful, are usually believed to render quantum bit commitment insecure. We point out that the no-go argument leading to this view implicitly assumes the evidence-of-commitment to be a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 R. Srikanth

We construct a publicly-verifiable non-interactive zero-knowledge argument system for QMA with the following properties. 1. Transparent setup. Our protocol only requires a uniformly random string (URS) setup. The only prior…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 James Bartusek , Ruta Jawale , Justin Raizes , Kabir Tomer

Commit-and-open Sigma-protocols are a popular class of protocols for constructing non-interactive zero-knowledge arguments and digital-signature schemes via the Fiat-Shamir transformation. Instantiated with hash-based commitments, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jelle Don , Serge Fehr , Christian Majenz , Christian Schaffner

We propose an incremental approach for safety proofs that decomposes a proof with a complex inductive invariant into a sequence of simpler proof steps. Our proof system combines rules for (i) forward reasoning using inductive invariants,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Eden Frenkel , Kenneth L. McMillan , Oded Padon , Sharon Shoham

Using the measurement-based quantum computation model, we construct interactive proofs with non-communicating quantum provers and a classical verifier. Our construction gives interactive proofs for all languages in BQP with a polynomial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 Matthew McKague

The Fischlin transform yields non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs with straight-line extractability in the classical random oracle model. This is done by forcing a prover to generate multiple accepting transcripts through a proof-of-work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Christian Majenz , Jaya Sharma