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The relationship between the quantum bit commitment (QBC) and quantum seal (QS) is studied. It is elaborated that QBC and QS are not equivalent, but QS protocols satisfying a stronger unconditional security requirement can lead to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-23 Guang Ping He , Z. D. Wang

There had been well known claims of ``provably unbreakable'' quantum protocols for bit commitment and coin tossing. However, we, and independently Mayers, showed that all proposed quantum bit commitment (and therefore coin tossing) schemes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Hoi-Kwong Lo , H. F. Chau

Unconditionally secure non-relativistic bit commitment is known to be impossible in both the classical and the quantum world. However, when committing to a string of n bits at once, how far can we stretch the quantum limits? In this letter,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harry Buhrman , Matthias Christandl , Patrick Hayden , Hoi-Kwong Lo , Stephanie Wehner

The claim of quantum cryptography has always been that it can provide protocols that are unconditionally secure, that is, for which the security does not depend on any restriction on the time, space or technology available to the cheaters.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Dominic Mayers

Several kinds of qubit-string-based(QS-based) bit commitment protocols are presented, and a definition of information-theoretic concealing is given. All the protocols presented here are proved to be secure under this definition. We suggest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-02 Li Yang , Chong Xiang , Bao Li

In this paper, we study relativistic bit commitment, which uses timing and location constraints to achieve information theoretic security. We consider the $F_Q$ multi-round bit commitment scheme introduced by Lunghi et al. [LKB+15]. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-15 Rémi Bricout , André Chailloux

We propose a framework of bit commitment protocol using a comparison scheme and present a compound comparison scheme based on counterfactual cryptography. Finally, we propose a counterfactual quantum bit commitment protocol. In security…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-05 Ya-Qi Song , Li Yang

Quantum bit commitment has been known to be impossible by the independent proofs of Mayers, and Lo and Chau, under the assumption that the whole quantum states right before the unveiling phase are static to users. We here provide an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-15 Jeong Woon Choi , Dowon Hong , Ku-Young Chang , Dong Pyo Chi , Soojoon Lee

Bit commitment is a fundamental cryptographic primitive and a cornerstone for numerous two-party cryptographic protocols, including zero-knowledge proofs. However, it has been proven that unconditionally secure bit commitment, both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Ziad Chaoui , Anna Pappa , Matteo Rosati

We define cheat sensitive cryptographic protocols between mistrustful parties as protocols which guarantee that, if either cheats, the other has some nonzero probability of detecting the cheating. We give an example of an unconditionally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Lucien Hardy , Adrian Kent

Bit commitment is a fundamental cryptographic task that guarantees a secure commitment between two mutually mistrustful parties and is a building block for many cryptographic primitives, including coin tossing, zero-knowledge proofs,…

This article describes a quantum bit commitment protocol, QBC1, based on entanglement destruction via forced measurements and proves its unconditional security.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-06 Horace P. Yuen

This article describes a quantum bit commitment protocol, QBC3, based on entanglement destruction via forced measurements and proves its unconditional security. Some comments on the current status of the field are also made.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Horace P. Yuen

Based on the fact that the entanglement can not be created locally, we proposed a quantum bit commitment protocol, in which entangled states and quantum algorithms is used. The bit is not encoded with the form of the quantum states, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guang-Ping He

In a recent letter (Phys. Lett. A 377 (2013) 1076, arXiv:0905.3801), the authors presented an impossibility proof of quantum bit commitment, which attempted to cover all possible protocols that involve both quantum and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 Guang Ping He

We show that all proposed quantum bit commitment schemes are insecure because the sender, Alice, can almost always cheat successfully by using an Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen type of attack and delaying her measurement until she opens her…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-25 Hoi-Kwong Lo , H. F. Chau

Recently an attack strategy was proposed by Chau [H. F. Chau, quant-ph/0602099 v3], which was claimed to be able to break all quantum string seal protocols, including the one proposed by He [G. P. He, Int. J. Quant. Inform. 4, 677 (2006)].…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-19 Guang Ping He

In a secure bit commitment protocol involving only classical physics, A commits either a 0 or a 1 to B. If quantum information is used in the protocol, A may be able to commit a state of the form $\alpha \ket{0} + \beta \ket{1}$. If so, she…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Adrian Kent

This paper devises a simple quantum bit commitment protocol that is just as easy to implement as any existing practical quantum bit commitment protocols but will be more secure. It will be infinitely close to being unconditionally fully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Muqian Wen

Quantum bit commitment (QBC) is insecure in the standard non-relativistic quantum cryptographic framework, essentially because Alice can exploit quantum steering to defer making her commitment. Two assumptions in this framework are that:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 R. Srikanth