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Online-Extractability in the Quantum Random-Oracle Model

Authors:
Jelle Don , Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
Serge Fehr , Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Leiden University
Christian Majenz , Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark
Christian Schaffner , University of Amsterdam, QuSoft
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Conference: EUROCRYPT 2022
Abstract: We show the following generic result: Whenever a quantum query algorithm in the quantum random-oracle model outputs a classical value t that is promised to be in some tight relation with H(x) for some x, then x can be efficiently extracted with almost certainty. The extraction is by means of a suitable simulation of the random oracle and works online, meaning that it is straightline, i.e., without rewinding, and on- the-fly, i.e., during the protocol execution and without disturbing it. The technical core of our result is a new commutator bound that bounds the operator norm of the commutator of the unitary operator that describes the evolution of the compressed oracle (which is used to simulate the random oracle above) and of the measurement that extracts x. We show two applications of our generic online extractability result. We show tight online extractability of commit-and-open Σ-protocols in the quantum setting, and we offer the first complete post-quantum security proof of the textbook Fujisaki-Okamoto transformation, i.e, without adjustments to facilitate the proof, including concrete security bounds.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{eurocrypt-2022-31882,
  title={Online-Extractability in the Quantum Random-Oracle Model},
  publisher={Springer-Verlag},
  author={Jelle Don and Serge Fehr and Christian Majenz and Christian Schaffner},
  year=2022
}