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Main Authors: Goldin, Eli, Zhandry, Mark
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11634
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author Goldin, Eli
Zhandry, Mark
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Zhandry, Mark
contents Black-box separations are a cornerstone of cryptography, indicating barriers to various goals. A recent line of work has explored black-box separations for quantum cryptographic primitives. Namely, a number of separations are known in the Common Haar Random State (CHRS) model, though this model is not considered a complete separation, but rather a starting point. A few very recent works have attempted to lift these separations to a unitary separation, which are considered complete separations. Unfortunately, we find significant errors in some of these lifting results. We prove general conditions under which CHRS separations can be generically lifted, thereby giving simple, modular, and bug-free proofs of complete unitary separations between various quantum primitives. Our techniques allow for simpler proofs of existing separations as well as new separations that were previously only known in the CHRS model.
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spellingShingle Translating Between the Common Haar Random State Model and the Unitary Model
Goldin, Eli
Zhandry, Mark
Quantum Physics
Cryptography and Security
Black-box separations are a cornerstone of cryptography, indicating barriers to various goals. A recent line of work has explored black-box separations for quantum cryptographic primitives. Namely, a number of separations are known in the Common Haar Random State (CHRS) model, though this model is not considered a complete separation, but rather a starting point. A few very recent works have attempted to lift these separations to a unitary separation, which are considered complete separations. Unfortunately, we find significant errors in some of these lifting results. We prove general conditions under which CHRS separations can be generically lifted, thereby giving simple, modular, and bug-free proofs of complete unitary separations between various quantum primitives. Our techniques allow for simpler proofs of existing separations as well as new separations that were previously only known in the CHRS model.
title Translating Between the Common Haar Random State Model and the Unitary Model
topic Quantum Physics
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11634