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Pseudorandom states (PRSs) are state ensembles that cannot be efficiently distinguished from Haar random states. However, the definition of PRSs has been limited to pure states and lacks robustness against noise. Here, we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Nikhil Bansal , Wai-Keong Mok , Kishor Bharti , Dax Enshan Koh , Tobias Haug

We introduce the pseudorandom quantum authentication scheme (PQAS), an efficient method for encrypting quantum states that relies solely on the existence of pseudorandom unitaries (PRUs). The scheme guarantees that for any eavesdropper with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Tobias Haug , Nikhil Bansal , Wai-Keong Mok , Dax Enshan Koh , Kishor Bharti

Unpredictable functions (UPFs) play essential roles in classical cryptography, including message authentication codes (MACs) and digital signatures. In this paper, we introduce a quantum analog of UPFs, which we call unpredictable state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Tomoyuki Morimae , Shogo Yamada , Takashi Yamakawa

We consider the problem of efficiently simulating random quantum states and random unitary operators, in a manner which is convincing to unbounded adversaries with black-box oracle access. This problem has previously only been considered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Gorjan Alagic , Christian Majenz , Alexander Russell

The pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs), sampling algorithms, and algorithms for generating random integers in some common statistical packages and programming languages are unnecessarily inaccurate, by an amount that may matter for…

Computation · Statistics 2018-10-29 Philip B. Stark , Kellie Ottoboni

Pseudorandom states (PRS) are an important primitive in quantum cryptography. In this paper, we show that subset states can be used to construct PRSs. A subset state with respect to $S$, a subset of the computational basis, is \[…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Fernando Granha Jeronimo , Nir Magrafta , Pei Wu

One of the most fundamental results in classical cryptography is that the existence of Pseudo-Random Generators (PRG) that expands $k$ bits of randomness to $k+1$ bits that are pseudo-random implies the existence of PRG that expand $k$ bits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Romi Levy , Thomas Vidick

We consider the task of constructing pseudorandom unitaries (PRUs) with scalable security, i.e. families in which the security parameter may vary independently of the dimension (or input bit-length). It is not known whether scalable PRUs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Zvika Brakerski , Henry Yuen

We investigate two natural relaxations of quantum cryptographic primitives. The first involves quantum input sampling, where inputs are generated by a quantum algorithm rather than sampled uniformly at random. Applying this to pseudorandom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Mohammed Barhoush , Ryo Nishimaki , Takashi Yamakawa

We study the natural question of constructing pseudorandom generators (PRGs) for low-degree polynomial threshold functions (PTFs). We give a PRG with seed-length log n/eps^{O(d)} fooling degree d PTFs with error at most eps. Previously, no…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Raghu Meka , David Zuckerman

Quantum Key Distribution(QKD) thrives to achieve perfect secrecy of One time Pad (OTP) through quantum processes. One of the crucial components of QKD are Quantum Random Number Generators(QRNG) for generation of keys. Unfortunately, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Arun Mishra , Kanaka Raju Pandiri , Anupama Arjun Pandit , Lucy Sharma

We prove a quantum information-theoretic conjecture due to Ji, Liu and Song (CRYPTO 2018) which suggested that a uniform superposition with random \emph{binary} phase is statistically indistinguishable from a Haar random state. That is, any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-27 Zvika Brakerski , Omri Shmueli

Designing a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) is a difficult and complex task. Many recent works have considered chaotic functions as the basis of built PRNGs: the quality of the output would indeed be an obvious consequence of some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Sylvain Contassot-Vivier , Jean-François Couchot , Christophe Guyeux , Pierre-Cyrille Heam

Random numbers are central to cryptography and various other tasks. The intrinsic probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics has allowed us to construct a large number of quantum random number generators (QRNGs) that are distinct from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Vaisakh Mannalath , Sandeep Mishra , Anirban Pathak

Halfspaces or linear threshold functions are widely studied in complexity theory, learning theory and algorithm design. In this work we study the natural problem of constructing pseudorandom generators (PRGs) for halfspaces over the sphere,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Pravesh Kothari , Raghu Meka

Pseudorandom states, introduced by Ji, Liu and Song (Crypto'18), are efficiently-computable quantum states that are computationally indistinguishable from Haar-random states. One-way functions imply the existence of pseudorandom states, but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Prabhanjan Ananth , Luowen Qian , Henry Yuen

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

Even if the output of a Random Number Generator (RNG) is perfectly uniformly distributed, it may be correlated to pre-existing information and therefore be predictable. Statistical tests are thus not sufficient to guarantee that an RNG is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 Daniela Frauchiger , Renato Renner , Matthias Troyer

Uniformly random unitaries, i.e. unitaries drawn from the Haar measure, have many useful properties, but cannot be implemented efficiently. This has motivated a long line of research into random unitaries that "look" sufficiently Haar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Tony Metger , Alexander Poremba , Makrand Sinha , Henry Yuen

Random unitaries are a central object of study in quantum information, with applications to quantum computation, quantum many-body physics, and quantum cryptography. Recent work has constructed unitary designs and pseudorandom unitaries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Ben Foxman , Natalie Parham , Francisca Vasconcelos , Henry Yuen