Perfectly concealing quantum bit commitment from any quantum one-way permutation

  • Authors:
  • Paul Dumais;Dominic Mayers;Louis Salvail

  • Affiliations:
  • Université de Montréal, Dept. of Computer Science;NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ;Dept. of Computer Science, University of Århus, Århus, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • EUROCRYPT'00 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Theory and application of cryptographic techniques
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We show that although unconditionally secure quantum bit commitment is impossible, it can be based upon any family of quantum one-way permutations. The resulting scheme is unconditionally concealing and computationally binding. Unlike the classical reduction of Naor, Ostrovski, Ventkatesen and Young, our protocol is non-interactive and has communication complexity O(n) qubits for n a security parameter.