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In the classical RAM, we have the following useful property. If we have an algorithm that uses $M$ memory cells throughout its execution, and in addition is sparse, in the sense that, at any point in time, only $m$ out of $M$ cells will be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Harry Buhrman , Bruno Loff , Subhasree Patro , Florian Speelman

Program obfuscation aims to conceal a program's internal structure while preserving its functionality. A central open problem is whether an obfuscation scheme for arbitrary quantum circuits exists. Despite several efforts having been made…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Miryam Mi-Ying Huang , Er-Cheng Tang

We initiate the study of multi-party computation for classical functionalities (in the plain model) with security against malicious polynomial-time quantum adversaries. We observe that existing techniques readily give a polynomial-round…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 Amit Agarwal , James Bartusek , Vipul Goyal , Dakshita Khurana , Giulio Malavolta

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

There is a large body of work studying what forms of computational hardness are needed to realize classical cryptography. In particular, one-way functions and pseudorandom generators can be built from each other, and thus require equivalent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Bruno Cavalar , Eli Goldin , Matthew Gray , Peter Hall , Yanyi Liu , Angelos Pelecanos

Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a provably secure way for two distant parties to establish a common secret key, which then can be used in a classical cryptographic scheme. Using quantum entanglement, one can reduce the necessary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 E. A. Aguilar , R. Ramanathan , J. Kofler , M. Pawlowski

It is an important question to find constructions of quantum cryptographic protocols which rely on weaker computational assumptions than classical protocols. Recently, it has been shown that oblivious transfer and multi-party computation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Alex B. Grilo , Or Sattath , Quoc-Huy Vu

Quantum algorithms have demonstrated promising speed-ups over classical algorithms in the context of computational learning theory - despite the presence of noise. In this work, we give an overview of recent quantum speed-ups, revisit the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-19 Alexander Poremba

How could quantum cryptography help us achieve what are not achievable in classical cryptography? In this work we study the classical cryptographic problem that two parties would like to perform secure computations with long outputs. As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Jiayu Zhang

It is known that if the quantum gates in a proposed quantum computer are so noisy that they are incapable of generating entanglement, then the device can be efficiently simulated classically. If the measurements and single particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 N. Ratanje , S. Virmani

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

A quantum encryption scheme (also called private quantum channel, or state randomization protocol) is a one-time pad for quantum messages. If two parties share a classical random string, one of them can transmit a quantum state to the other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andris Ambainis , Adam Smith

Motivated by the applications of secure multiparty computation as a privacy-protecting data analysis tool, and identifying oblivious transfer as one of its main practical enablers, we propose a practical realization of randomized quantum…

The oblivious transfer primitive is sufficient to implement secure multiparty computation. However, secure multiparty computation based only on classical cryptography is severely limited by the security and efficiency of the oblivious…

We show that there exists an oracle relative to which quantum commitments exist but no (efficiently verifiable) one-way state generators exist. Both have been widely considered candidates for replacing one-way functions as the minimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 John Bostanci , Boyang Chen , Barak Nehoran

It is well known that quantum technology allows for an unprecedented level of data and software protection for quantum computers as well as for quantum-assisted classical computers. To exploit these properties, probabilistic one-time…

We consider the implementation of two-party cryptographic primitives based on the sole assumption that no large-scale reliable quantum storage is available to the cheating party. We construct novel protocols for oblivious transfer and bit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 Robert Koenig , Stephanie Wehner , Juerg Wullschleger

While one-way functions (OWFs) serve as the minimal assumption for computational cryptography in the classical setting, in quantum cryptography, we have even weaker cryptographic assumptions such as pseudo-random states, and EFI pairs,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Alex B. Grilo , Álvaro Yángüez

We construct a quantum oracle relative to which $\mathsf{BQP} = \mathsf{QMA}$ but cryptographic pseudorandom quantum states and pseudorandom unitary transformations exist, a counterintuitive result in light of the fact that pseudorandom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 William Kretschmer

Quantum copy protection, introduced by Aaronson, enables giving out a quantum program-description that cannot be meaningfully duplicated. Despite over a decade of study, copy protection is only known to be possible for a very limited class…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Andrea Coladangelo , Sam Gunn