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Translating Between the Common Haar Random State Model and the Unitary Model

Authors:
Eli Goldin , New York University
Mark Zhandry , NTT Research & Stanford University
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Conference: CRYPTO 2025
Abstract: Black-box separations are a cornerstone of cryptography, in- dicating 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 separa- tion, 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.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{crypto-2025-35762,
  title={Translating Between the Common Haar Random State Model and the Unitary Model},
  publisher={Springer-Verlag},
  author={Eli Goldin and Mark Zhandry},
  year=2025
}