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- research-articlePublished By ACMPublished By ACM
Quantum State Obfuscation from Classical Oracles
- James Bartusek
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
, - Zvika Brakerski
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
, - Vinod Vaikuntanathan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA
STOC 2024: Proceedings of the 56th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing•June 2024, pp 1009-1017• https://doi.org/10.1145/3618260.3649673A major unresolved question in quantum cryptography is whether it is possible to obfuscate arbitrary quantum computation. Indeed, there is much yet to understand about the feasibility of quantum obfuscation even in the classical oracle model, where one ...
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Pseudorandomness with Proof of Destruction and Applications
- Amit Behera
https://ror.org/05tkyf982Department of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
, - Zvika Brakerski
https://ror.org/0316ej306Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
, - Or Sattath
https://ror.org/05tkyf982Department of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
, - Omri Shmueli
https://ror.org/04mhzgx49Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
AbstractTwo fundamental properties of quantum states that quantum information theory explores are pseudorandomness and provability of destruction. We introduce the notion of quantum pseudorandom states with proofs of destruction (PRSPD) that combines both ...
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- Amit Behera
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Simple Tests of Quantumness Also Certify Qubits
- Zvika Brakerski
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
, - Alexandru Gheorghiu
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
, - Gregory D. Kahanamoku-Meyer
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
, - Eitan Porat
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
, - Thomas Vidick
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2023•August 2023, pp 162-191• https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38554-4_6AbstractA test of quantumness is a protocol that allows a classical verifier to certify (only) that a prover is not classical. We show that tests of quantumness that follow a certain template, which captures recent proposals such as [KCVY21, KLVY22], can ...
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Black-Hole Radiation Decoding Is Quantum Cryptography
- Zvika Brakerski
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2023•August 2023, pp 37-65• https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38554-4_2AbstractWe propose to study equivalence relations between phenomena in high-energy physics and the existence of standard cryptographic primitives, and show the first example where such an equivalence holds. A small number of prior works showed that high-...
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SNARGs for Monotone Policy Batch NP
- Zvika Brakerski
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
, - Maya Farber Brodsky
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
, - Yael Tauman Kalai
Microsoft Research and MIT, Cambridge, USA
, - Alex Lombardi
Simons Institute and UC Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
, - Omer Paneth
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2023•August 2023, pp 252-283• https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38545-2_9AbstractWe construct a succinct non-interactive argument () for the class of monotone policy batch languages, under the Learning with Errors () assumption. This class is a subclass of that is associated with a monotone function
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Candidate iO from Homomorphic Encryption Schemes
- Zvika Brakerski
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
, - Nico Döttling
CISPA Helmoltz Center for Information Security, Saarbrücken, Germany
, - Sanjam Garg
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
, - Giulio Malavolta
Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Bochum, Germany
AbstractWe propose a new approach to construct general-purpose indistinguishability obfuscation (iO). Our construction is obtained via a new intermediate primitive that we call split fully homomorphic encryption (split FHE), which we show to be sufficient ...
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- research-articlePublished By ACMPublished By ACM
Lattice Problems beyond Polynomial Time
- Divesh Aggarwal
National University of Singapore, Singapore
, - Huck Bennett
Oregon State University, USA
, - Zvika Brakerski
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
, - Alexander Golovnev
Georgetown University, USA
, - Rajendra Kumar
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
, - Zeyong Li
National University of Singapore, Singapore
, - Spencer Peters
Cornell University, USA
, - Noah Stephens-Davidowitz
Cornell University, USA
, - Vinod Vaikuntanathan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
STOC 2023: Proceedings of the 55th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing•June 2023, pp 1516-1526• https://doi.org/10.1145/3564246.3585227We study the complexity of lattice problems in a world where algorithms, reductions, and protocols can run in superpolynomial time. Specifically, we revisit four foundational results in this context—two protocols and two worst-case to average-case ...
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- Divesh Aggarwal
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Constructive Post-Quantum Reductions
- Nir Bitansky
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
, - Zvika Brakerski
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rechovot, Israel
, - Yael Tauman Kalai
Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2022•August 2022, pp 654-683• https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15982-4_22AbstractIs it possible to convert classical reductions into post-quantum ones? It is customary to argue that while this is problematic in the interactive setting, non-interactive reductions do carry over. However, when considering quantum auxiliary input, ...
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- research-articlePublished By ACMPublished By ACM
Quantum garbled circuits
- Zvika Brakerski
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
, - Henry Yuen
Columbia University, USA
STOC 2022: Proceedings of the 54th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing•June 2022, pp 804-817• https://doi.org/10.1145/3519935.3520073In classical computing, garbled circuits (and their generalization known as randomized encodings) are a versatile cryptographic tool with many applications such as secure multiparty computation, delegated computation, depth-reduction of cryptographic ...
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Batch-OT with Optimal Rate
- Zvika Brakerski
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
, - Pedro Branco
IT, IST - University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
, - Nico Döttling
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbrücken, Germany
, - Sihang Pu
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbrücken, Germany
Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2022•May 2022, pp 157-186• https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07085-3_6AbstractWe show that it is possible to perform n independent copies of 1-out-of-2 oblivious transfer in two messages, where the communication complexity of the receiver and sender (each) is for sufficiently large n. Note that this matches the ...
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From Selective to Adaptive Security in Functional Encryption
- Prabhanjan Ananth
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
, - Zvika Brakerski
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
, - Gil Segev
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
, - Vinod Vaikuntanathan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
AbstractIn a functional encryption (FE) scheme, the owner of the secret key can generate restricted decryption keys that allow users to learn specific functions of the encrypted messages and nothing else. In many known constructions of FE schemes, ...
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- Prabhanjan Ananth
- Article
Classical Binding for Quantum Commitments
- Nir Bitansky
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
, - Zvika Brakerski
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
AbstractIn classical commitments, statistical binding means that for almost any commitment transcript there is at most one possible opening. While quantum commitments (for classical messages) sometimes have benefits over their classical counterparts (...
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- Nir Bitansky
- Article
Impossibility of Quantum Virtual Black-Box Obfuscation of Classical Circuits
- Gorjan Alagic
Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
, - Zvika Brakerski
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
, - Yfke Dulek
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
QuSoft, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
, - Christian Schaffner
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
QuSoft, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2021•August 2021, pp 497-525• https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84242-0_18AbstractVirtual black-box obfuscation is a strong cryptographic primitive: it encrypts a circuit while maintaining its full input/output functionality. A remarkable result by Barak et al. (Crypto 2001) shows that a general obfuscator that obfuscates ...
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- Gorjan Alagic
- research-articleOpen AccessPublished By ACMPublished By ACM
A Cryptographic Test of Quantumness and Certifiable Randomness from a Single Quantum Device
- Zvika Brakerski
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
, - Paul Christiano
OpenAI, USA
, - Urmila Mahadev
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, USA
, - Umesh Vazirani
UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA, USA
, - Thomas Vidick
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, USA
Journal of the ACM, Volume 68, Issue 5•October 2021, Article No.: 31, pp 1-47 • https://doi.org/10.1145/3441309We consider a new model for the testing of untrusted quantum devices, consisting of a single polynomial time bounded quantum device interacting with a classical polynomial time verifier. In this model, we propose solutions to two tasks—a protocol for ...
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Obfuscating Circuits Via Composite-Order Graded Encoding
- Benny Applebaum
School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
, - Zvika Brakerski
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
AbstractWe present a candidate obfuscator based on composite-order graded encoding schemes (GES), which are a generalization of multilinear maps. Our obfuscator operates on circuits directly without converting them into formulas or branching programs as ...
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- Benny Applebaum
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Perfect Secure Computation in Two Rounds
We show that any multiparty functionality can be evaluated using a 2-round protocol with perfect correctness and perfect semihonest security, provided that the majority of parties are honest. This settles the round complexity of information-theoretic ...
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Constant Ciphertext-Rate Non-committing Encryption from Standard Assumptions
- Zvika Brakerski
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
, - Pedro Branco
IT, IST - University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
, - Nico Döttling
Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA), Saarbrücken, Germany
, - Sanjam Garg
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
, - Giulio Malavolta
Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Bochum, Germany
AbstractNon-committing encryption (NCE) is a type of public key encryption which comes with the ability to equivocate ciphertexts to encryptions of arbitrary messages, i.e., it allows one to find coins for key generation and encryption which “explain” a ...
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FHE-Based Bootstrapping of Designated-Prover NIZK
- Zvika Brakerski
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
, - Sanjam Garg
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
, - Rotem Tsabary
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
AbstractWe present a novel tree-based technique that can convert any designated-prover NIZK proof system (DP-NIZK) which maintains zero-knowledge only for single statement, into one that allows to prove an unlimited number of statements in ZK, while ...
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Lossiness and Entropic Hardness for Ring-LWE
- Zvika Brakerski
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
, - Nico Döttling
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbrücken, Germany
AbstractThe hardness of the Ring Learning with Errors problem (RLWE) is a central building block for efficiency-oriented lattice-based cryptography. Many applications use an “entropic” variant of the problem where the so-called “secret” is not distributed ...
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Scalable Pseudorandom Quantum States
- Zvika Brakerski
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
, - Omri Shmueli
Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2020•August 2020, pp 417-440• https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56880-1_15AbstractEfficiently sampling a quantum state that is hard to distinguish from a truly random quantum state is an elementary task in quantum information theory that has both computational and physical uses. This is often referred to as pseudorandom (...
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- A. There is a time delay between publication and the process which associates that publication with an Author Profile Page. Right now, that process usually takes 4-8 weeks.
- Q. How does ACM Author-Izer expand ACM’s “Green Path” Access Policies?
- A. ACM Author-Izer extends the rights and permissions that authors retain even after copyright transfer to ACM, which has been among the “greenest” publishers. ACM enables its author community to retain a wide range of rights related to copyright and reuse of materials. They include:
- Posting rights that ensure free access to their work outside the ACM Digital Library and print publications
- Rights to reuse any portion of their work in new works that they may create
- Copyright to artistic images in ACM’s graphics-oriented publications that authors may want to exploit in commercial contexts
- All patent rights, which remain with the original owner