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Quantum copy protection uses the unclonability of quantum states to construct quantum software that provably cannot be pirated. Copy protection would be immensely useful, but unfortunately little is known about how to achieve it in general.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Scott Aaronson , Jiahui Liu , Qipeng Liu , Mark Zhandry , Ruizhe Zhang

One-time programs (Goldwasser, Kalai and Rothblum, CRYPTO 2008) are functions that can be run on any single input of a user's choice, but not on a second input. Classically, they are unachievable without trusted hardware, but the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Aparna Gupte , Jiahui Liu , Justin Raizes , Bhaskar Roberts , Vinod Vaikuntanathan

We show that concrete hardness assumptions about learning or cloning the output state of a random quantum circuit can be used as the foundation for secure quantum cryptography. In particular, under these assumptions we construct secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Bill Fefferman , Soumik Ghosh , Makrand Sinha , Henry Yuen

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

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

Quantum cryptography -- the application of quantum computing techniques to cryptography has been extensively investigated. Two major directions of quantum cryptography are quantum key distribution (QKD) and quantum encryption, with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 Zixuan Hu , Sabre Kais

Recently, there are more and more organizations offering quantum-cloud services, where any client can access a quantum computer remotely through the internet. In the near future, these cloud servers may claim to offer quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-20 Xi Chen , Bin Cheng , Zhaokai Li , Xinfang Nie , Nengkun Yu , Man-Hong Yung , Xinhua Peng

Quantum computing often requires classical data to be supplied to execution environments that may not be fully trusted or isolated. While encryption protects data at rest and in transit, it provides limited protection once computation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Amal Raj , Vivek Balachandran

Regarding minimal assumptions, most of classical cryptography is known to depend on the existence of One-Way Functions (OWFs). However, recent evidence has shown that this is not the case when considering quantum resources. Besides the well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Manuel Goulão , David Elkouss

The no-cloning theorem can be used as a basis for quantum money constructions which guarantee unconditionally unforgeable currency. Existing schemes, however, either (i) require long-term quantum memory and quantum communication between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Dmytro Gavinsky , Dar Gilboa , Siddhartha Jain , Dmitri Maslov , Jarrod R. McClean

A significant branch of classical cryptography deals with the problems which arise when mistrustful parties need to generate, process or exchange information. As Kilian showed a while ago, mistrustful classical cryptography can be founded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Adrian Kent

We prove that it is impossible to construct perfect-complete quantum public-key encryption (QPKE) with classical keys from quantumly secure one-way functions (OWFs) in a black-box manner, resolving a long-standing open question in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Longcheng Li , Qian Li , Xingjian Li , Qipeng Liu

Quantum mechanics provides cryptographic primitives whose security is grounded in hardness assumptions independent of those underlying classical cryptography. However, existing proposals require low-noise quantum communication and…

Encryption of data is fundamental to secure communication in the modern world. Beyond encryption of data lies obfuscation, i.e., encryption of functionality. It is well-known that the most powerful means of obfuscating classical programs,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Gorjan Alagic , Bill Fefferman

The interest in post-quantum cryptography - classical systems that remain secure in the presence of a quantum adversary - has generated elegant proposals for new cryptosystems. Some of these systems are set in the random oracle model and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-05 Dan Boneh , Özgür Dagdelen , Marc Fischlin , Anja Lehmann , Christian Schaffner , Mark Zhandry

Semi-quantum protocols construct connections between quantum users and ``classical'' users who can only perform certain ``classical'' operations. In this paper, we present a new semi-quantum private comparison protocol based on entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-10 Chong-Qiang Ye , Jian Li , Xiu-Bo Chen , Yanyan Hou , Zhou Wang

Attacks on classical cryptographic protocols are usually modeled by allowing an adversary to ask queries from an oracle. Security is then defined by requiring that as long as the queries satisfy some constraint, there is some problem the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-01 Ivan Damgaard , Jakob Funder , Jesper Buus Nielsen , Louis Salvail

Quantum correlations between two particles show non-classical properties which can be used for providing secure transmission of information. We present a quantum cryptographic system, in which users store particles in quantum memories kept…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Biham , B Huttner , T Mor

Quantum entanglement, perhaps the most non-classical manifestation of quantum information theory, cannot be used to transmit information between remote parties. Yet, it can be used to reduce the amount of communication required to process a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-29 Gilles Brassard , Anne Broadbent , Alain Tapp

Quantum encryption is a well studied problem for both classical and quantum information. However, little is known about quantum encryption schemes which enable the user, under different keys, to learn different functions of the plaintext,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Aditya Ahuja