Paper 2023/1772
Robust Combiners and Universal Constructions for Quantum Cryptography
Abstract
A robust combiner combines many candidates for a cryptographic primitive and generates a new candidate for the same primitive. Its correctness and security hold as long as one of the original candidates satisfies correctness and security. A universal construction is a closely related notion to a robust combiner. A universal construction for a primitive is an explicit construction of the primitive that is correct and secure as long as the primitive exists. It is known that a universal construction for a primitive can be constructed from a robust combiner for the primitive in many cases. Although robust combiners and universal constructions for classical cryptography are widely studied, robust combiners and universal constructions for quantum cryptography have not been explored so far. In this work, we define robust combiners and universal constructions for several quantum cryptographic primitives including one-way state generators, public-key quantum money, quantum bit commitments, and unclonable encryption, and provide constructions of them. On a different note, it was an open problem how to expand the plaintext length of unclonable encryption. In one of our universal constructions for unclonable encryption, we can expand the plaintext length, which resolves the open problem.
Metadata
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PDF
- Category
- Foundations
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- Keywords
- Quantum Cryptography
- Contact author(s)
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taiga hiroka @ yukawa kyoto-u ac jp
fuyuki kitagawa @ ntt com
ryo nishimaki @ ntt com
takashi yamakawa @ ntt com - History
- 2023-12-05: revised
- 2023-11-16: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2023/1772
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/1772,
author = {Taiga Hiroka and Fuyuki Kitagawa and Ryo Nishimaki and Takashi Yamakawa},
title = {Robust Combiners and Universal Constructions for Quantum Cryptography},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/1772},
year = {2023},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1772}
}
