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We describe scalable protocols for solving the secure multi-party computation (MPC) problem among a large number of parties. We consider both the synchronous and the asynchronous communication models. In the synchronous setting, our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Varsha Dani , Valerie King , Mahnush Movahedi , Jared Saia , Mahdi Zamani

We provide a generic construction to turn any classical Zero-Knowledge (ZK) protocol into a composable (quantum) oblivious transfer (OT) protocol, mostly lifting the round-complexity properties and security guarantees…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Léo Colisson , Garazi Muguruza , Florian Speelman

As quantum computing machines move towards the utility regime, it is essential that users are able to verify their delegated quantum computations with security guarantees that are (i) robust to noise (ii) composable with other secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Sami Abdul Sater , Harold Ollivier

The rapid advancement of quantum technologies calls for the design and deployment of quantum-safe cryptographic protocols and communication networks. There are two primary approaches to achieving quantum-resistant security: quantum key…

In a world where elections touch every aspect of society, the need for secure voting is paramount. Traditional safeguards, based on classical cryptography, rely on complex math problems like factoring large numbers. However, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Saiyam Sakhuja , S. Balakrishnan

Formal methods for guaranteeing that a protocol satisfies a cryptographic security definition have advanced substantially, but such methods are still labor intensive and the need remains for an automated tool that can positively identify an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Mako Bates , Joseph P. Near

The ability to perform computations on encrypted data is a powerful tool for protecting privacy. Recently, protocols to achieve this on classical computing systems have been found. Here we present an efficient solution to the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 K. Fisher , A. Broadbent , L. K. Shalm , Z. Yan , J. Lavoie , R. Prevedel , T. Jennewein , K. J. Resch

A theoretical framework of quantum no-key (QNK) protocol has been presented. As its applications, we develop three kinds of QNK protocols: the practical QNK protocols, the QNK protocol based on quantum perfect encryption, and the QNK…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Li Yang , Min Liang , Bao Li , Lei Hu , Ling-An Wu

The universal blind quantum computation protocol (UBQC) (Broadbent, Fitzsimons, Kashefi 2009) enables an almost classical client to delegate a quantum computation to an untrusted quantum server (in form of a garbled quantum computation)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-11 Elham Kashefi , Petros Wallden

Secure quantum conferencing refers to a protocol where a number of trusted users generate exactly the same secret key to confidentially broadcast private messages. By a modification of the techniques first introduced in [Pirandola,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Stefano Pirandola

Based on the instantaneous nonlocal quantum computation (INQC), Buhrman et al. proposed an excellent attack strategy to quantum position verification (QPV) protocols in 2011, and showed that, if the colluding adversaries are allowed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-21 Fei Gao , Bin Liu , Qiao-Yan Wen

The fairness of a secure multi-party quantum key agreement (MQKA) protocol requires that all involved parties are entirely peer entities and can equally influence the outcome of the protocol to establish a shared key wherein no one can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Zhiwei Sun , Xiaoqiang Sun , Ping Wang

Nowadays, equivalence problems are widely used in cryptography, most notably to establish cryptosystems such as digital signatures, with MEDS, LESS, PERK as the most recent ones. However, in the context of matrix codes, only the code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Magali Bardet , Charles Brion , Philippe Gaborit , Mercedes Haiech , Romaric Neveu

This paper introduces quantum analogues of non-interactive perfect and statistical zero-knowledge proof systems. Similar to the classical cases, it is shown that sharing randomness or entanglement is necessary for non-trivial protocols of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hirotada Kobayashi

Multiparty computation (MPC) consists in several parties engaging in joint computation in such a way that each party's input and output remain private to that party. Whereas MPC protocols for specific computations have existed since the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Jesús Manjón

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

Known protocols for secure delegation of quantum computations from a client to a server in an information theoretic setting require quantum communication. In this work, we investigate methods to reduce communication overhead. First, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Abbas Poshtvan , Oleksandra Lapiha , Mina Doosti , Dominik Leichtle , Luka Music , Elham Kashefi

We establish fundamental and general techniques for formal verification of quantum protocols. Quantum protocols are novel communication schemes involving the use of quantum-mechanical phenomena for representation, storage and transmission…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon Gay , Rajagopal Nagarajan , Nikolaos Papanikolaou

Here we propose a general relativistic quantum framework for cryptography that exploits the fascinating connection of quantum non-locality and special theory of relativity with cryptography. The underlying principle of unconditional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Muhammad Nadeem

In this paper we review and comment on "A novel protocol-authentication algorithm ruling out a man-in-the-middle attack in quantum cryptography", [M. Peev et al., Int. J. Quant. Inform., 3, 225, (2005)]. In particular, we point out that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-13 Aysajan Abidin , Jan-Åke Larsson