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Signing quantum messages has long been considered impossible even under computational assumptions. In this work, we challenge this notion and provide three innovative approaches to sign quantum messages that are the first to ensure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Mohammed Barhoush , Louis Salvail

Semi-quantum signature (SQS) schemes aim to enable quantum signature functionality in scenarios where only a subset of participants possess full quantum capabilities, thereby improving practical deployability while preserving quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Zengyu Pang , Hua Xiang

Digital signatures are fundamental cryptographic primitives that ensure the authenticity and integrity of digital communication. However, in scenarios involving sensitive interactions -- such as e-voting or e-cash -- there is a growing need…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Shanu Poddar , Sweta Mishra , Tapaswini Mohanty , Vikas Srivastava , Sugata Gangopadhyay

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

In this paper, we describe an attack against one of the Oblivious-Transfer-based blind signatures scheme, proposed in [1]. An attacker with a primitive capability of producing specific-range random numbers, while exhibiting a partial MITM…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-11-10 Stylianos Basagiannis , Panagiotis Katsaros , Andrew Pombortsis

Key substitution vulnerable signature schemes are signature schemes that permit an intruder, given a public verification key and a signed message, to compute a pair of signature and verification keys such that the message appears to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-10-31 Yannick Chevalier , Mounira Kourjieh

In this paper, we study the security of a compressed sensing (CS) based cryptosystem called a sparse one-time sensing (S-OTS) cryptosystem, which encrypts a plaintext with a sparse measurement matrix. To construct the secret matrix and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Wonwoo Cho , Nam Yul Yu

The notion of aggregate signature has been motivated by applications and it enables any user to compress different signatures signed by different signers on different messages into a short signature. Sequential aggregate signature, in turn,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-02-25 Kwangsu Lee , Dong Hoon Lee , Moti Yung

The shot-noise unit in continuous-variable quantum key distribution plays an important and fundamental role in experimental implementation as it is used as a normalization parameter that contribute to perform security analysis and distill…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Yi-Chen Zhang , Yundi Huang , Ziyang Chen , Zhengyu Li , Song Yu , Hong Guo

Digital signatures represent a crucial cryptographic asset that must be protected against quantum adversaries. Quantum Digital Signatures (QDS) can offer solutions that are information-theoretically (IT) secure and thus immune to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Federico Grasselli , Gaetano Russo , Massimiliano Proietti

We analyze and demonstrate the feasibility and superiority of linear optical single-qubit fingerprinting over its classical counterpart. For one-qubit fingerprinting of two-bit messages, we prepare `tetrahedral' qubit states experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rolf T. Horn , S. A. Babichev , Karl-Peter Marzlin , A. I. Lvovsky , Barry C. Sanders

Digital signatures are a powerful cryptographic tool widely employed across various industries for securely authenticating the identity of a signer during communication between signers and verifiers. While quantum digital signatures have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Wusheng Wang , Masahito Hayashi

Signcryption is a cryptographic primitive which performs encryption and signature in a single logical step. In conventional signcryption only receiver of the signcrypted text can verify the authenticity of the origin i.e. signature of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-07-12 Prashant Kushwah , Sunder Lal

We revisit the so-called compressed oracle technique, introduced by Zhandry for analyzing quantum algorithms in the quantum random oracle model (QROM). To start off with, we offer a concise exposition of the technique, which easily extends…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-12 Kai-Min Chung , Serge Fehr , Yu-Hsuan Huang , Tai-Ning Liao

Quantum zero-knowledge proofs and quantum proofs of knowledge are inherently difficult to analyze because their security analysis uses rewinding. Certain cases of quantum rewinding are handled by the results by Watrous (SIAM J Comput, 2009)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Andris Ambainis , Ansis Rosmanis , Dominique Unruh

Ring signatures are cryptographic protocols designed to allow any member of a group to produce a signature on behalf of the group, without revealing the individual signer's identity. This offers group members a level of anonymity not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Rebekah Mercer

Group signature is a fundamental cryptographic primitive, aiming to protect anonymity and ensure accountability of users. It allows group members to anonymously sign messages on behalf of the whole group, while incorporating a tracing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-25 San Ling , Khoa Nguyen , Huaxiong Wang , Yanhong Xu

In this paper, an efficient arbitrated quantum signature scheme is proposed by combining quantum cryptographic techniques and some ideas in classical cryptography. In the presented scheme, the signatory and the receiver can share a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Qin Li , Chengqing Li , Chunhui Wu , Dongyang Long , Changji Wang

Applying the Fiat-Shamir transform on identification schemes is one of the main ways of constructing signature schemes. While the classical security of this transformation is well understood, it is only very recently that generic results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 André Chailloux

Performing searches over encrypted data is a very current and active area. Several efficient solutions have been provided for the single-writer scenario in which all sensitive data originates with one party (the Data Owner) that encrypts it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Angelo Massimo Perillo , Giuseppe Persiano , Alberto Trombetta