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Quantum Cryptography with Classical Communication: Parallel Remote State Preparation for Copy-Protection, Verification, and More

Authors Alexandru Gheorghiu , Tony Metger , Alexander Poremba

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Alexandru Gheorghiu
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden
  • Institute for Theoretical Studies, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Tony Metger
  • Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Alexander Poremba
  • Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

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  • Gheorghiu, Alexandru: Acknowledges support from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation through the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology (WACQT) and Dr. Max Rössler, the Walter Haefner Foundation and the ETH Zürich Foundation, while at ETH.
  • Metger, Tony: Acknowledges support from the QuantERA project "eDict" and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Grant No. FA9550-19-1-0202.
  • Poremba, Alexander: Acknowledges partial support from AFOSR YIP award number FA9550-16-1-0495 and the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (an NSF Physics Frontiers Center; NSF Grant PHY-1733907)

Acknowledgements

We thank Honghao Fu, Thomas Vidick, and Daochen Wang for helpful discussions, and Jeffrey Champion and John Wright for allowing us to use the results in Section 4.3 of the full version of the manuscript, which are based on unpublished joint work by them and the second author. We also thank Matty Hoban for pointing out a typo in an earlier draft.

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Alexandru Gheorghiu, Tony Metger, and Alexander Poremba. Quantum Cryptography with Classical Communication: Parallel Remote State Preparation for Copy-Protection, Verification, and More. In 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 261, pp. 67:1-67:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.67

Abstract

Quantum mechanical effects have enabled the construction of cryptographic primitives that are impossible classically. For example, quantum copy-protection allows for a program to be encoded in a quantum state in such a way that the program can be evaluated, but not copied. Many of these cryptographic primitives are two-party protocols, where one party, Bob, has full quantum computational capabilities, and the other party, Alice, is only required to send random BB84 states to Bob. In this work, we show how such protocols can generically be converted to ones where Alice is fully classical, assuming that Bob cannot efficiently solve the LWE problem. In particular, this means that all communication between (classical) Alice and (quantum) Bob is classical, yet they can still make use of cryptographic primitives that would be impossible if both parties were classical. We apply this conversion procedure to obtain quantum cryptographic protocols with classical communication for unclonable encryption, copy-protection, computing on encrypted data, and verifiable blind delegated computation.
The key technical ingredient for our result is a protocol for classically-instructed parallel remote state preparation of BB84 states. This is a multi-round protocol between (classical) Alice and (quantum polynomial-time) Bob that allows Alice to certify that Bob must have prepared n uniformly random BB84 states (up to a change of basis on his space). While previous approaches could only certify one- or two-qubit states, our protocol allows for the certification of an n-fold tensor product of BB84 states. Furthermore, Alice knows which specific BB84 states Bob has prepared, while Bob himself does not. Hence, the situation at the end of this protocol is (almost) equivalent to one where Alice sent n random BB84 states to Bob. This allows us to replace the step of preparing and sending BB84 states in existing protocols by our remote-state preparation protocol in a generic and modular way.

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  • Theory of computation
  • Theory of computation → Cryptographic protocols
Keywords
  • Quantum cryptography
  • Remote state preparation
  • Self-testing
  • Learning with errors
  • Quantum copy-protection
  • Unclonable encryption
  • Quantum verification

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