Nonmalleable encryption of quantum information

Andris Ambainis, Jan Bouda, Andreas Winter

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Abstract

We introduce the notion of nonmalleability of a quantum state encryption scheme (in dimension d): in addition to the requirement that an adversary cannot learn information about the state, here we demand that no controlled modification of the encrypted state can be effected. We show that such a scheme is equivalent to a unitary 2-design [Dankert, e-print arXiv:quant-ph/0606161], as opposed to normal encryption which is a unitary 1-design. Our other main results include a new proof of the lower bound of (d2 -1) 2 +1 on the number of unitaries in a 2-design [Gross, J. Math. Phys. 48, 052104 (2007)], which lends itself to a generalization to approximate 2-design. Furthermore, while in prime power dimension there is a unitary 2-design with d5 elements, we show that there are always approximate 2-designs with O (-2 d4 log d) elements.

Original languageEnglish
Article number042106
JournalJournal of Mathematical Physics
Volume50
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes

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