CRYPTO 2012

Aug 19 – 23
Santa Barbara
California
USA

 

 

 

Quantum to Classical Randomness Extractors

 

Mario Berta (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Omar Fawzi (McGill University, Canada)

Stephanie Wehner (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

 

Abstract:
The goal of randomness extraction is to distill (almost) perfect randomness from a weak source of randomness. When the source yields a classical string X, many extractor constructions are known. Yet, when considering a physical randomness source, X is itself ultimately the result of a measurement on an underlying quantum system. When characterizing the power of a source to supply randomness it is hence a natural question to ask, how much classical randomness we can extract from a quantum state. To tackle this question we here take on the study of quantum-to-classical randomness extractors (QC-extractors). We provide constructions of QC-extractors based on measurements in a full set of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs), and certain single qubit measurements. As the first application, we show that any QC-extractor gives rise to entropic uncertainty relations with respect to quantum side information. Such relations were previously only known for two measurements. As the second application, we resolve the central open question in the noisy-storage model by linking security to the quantum capacity of the adversary's storage device.

 

 

 

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