Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ramanathan, Ravishankar, Liu, Yuan, Wu, Yutian
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17020
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866916802972352512
author Ramanathan, Ravishankar
Liu, Yuan
Wu, Yutian
author_facet Ramanathan, Ravishankar
Liu, Yuan
Wu, Yutian
contents The question of security of practical device-independent protocols against no-signalling adversaries, the ultimate form of cryptographic security, has remained open. A key ingredient is to identify how the entropy in the raw outputs of a Bell test accumulates over $n$ sequential runs (termed time-ordered no-signalling) against a no-signalling adversary. Previous numerical and analytical investigations for small $n$ ($\leq 5$) had suggested that the min-entropy might not accumulate linearly in contrast to the case of quantum adversaries. Here we point out that despite the findings for small $n$, the min-entropy does in fact accumulate linearly for large $n$. We illustrate the difference in randomness accumulation against quantum and no-signalling adversaries with the paradigmatic example of the Chained Bell test for which we analytically derive the min-entropy. Finally, we illustrate the power of the no-signalling adversary by providing a class of attacks that allow an eavesdropper to perfectly guess the outputs of one player in general bipartite Pseudotelepathy games.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2506_17020
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Accumulation of Device-Independent Quantum Randomness against Time-Ordered No-Signalling Adversaries
Ramanathan, Ravishankar
Liu, Yuan
Wu, Yutian
Quantum Physics
The question of security of practical device-independent protocols against no-signalling adversaries, the ultimate form of cryptographic security, has remained open. A key ingredient is to identify how the entropy in the raw outputs of a Bell test accumulates over $n$ sequential runs (termed time-ordered no-signalling) against a no-signalling adversary. Previous numerical and analytical investigations for small $n$ ($\leq 5$) had suggested that the min-entropy might not accumulate linearly in contrast to the case of quantum adversaries. Here we point out that despite the findings for small $n$, the min-entropy does in fact accumulate linearly for large $n$. We illustrate the difference in randomness accumulation against quantum and no-signalling adversaries with the paradigmatic example of the Chained Bell test for which we analytically derive the min-entropy. Finally, we illustrate the power of the no-signalling adversary by providing a class of attacks that allow an eavesdropper to perfectly guess the outputs of one player in general bipartite Pseudotelepathy games.
title Accumulation of Device-Independent Quantum Randomness against Time-Ordered No-Signalling Adversaries
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17020