Two-source extractors secure against quantum adversaries

  • Authors:
  • Roy Kasher;Julia Kempe

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University;School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University

  • Venue:
  • APPROX/RANDOM'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Approximation, and 14 the International conference on Randomization, and combinatorial optimization: algorithms and techniques
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We initiate the study of multi-source extractors in the quantum world. In this setting, our goal is to extract random bits from two independent weak random sources, on which two quantum adversaries store a bounded amount of information. Our main result is a two-source extractor secure against quantumadversaries, with parameters closely matching the classical case and tight in several instances. Moreover, the extractor is secure even if the adversaries share entanglement. The construction is the Chor-Goldreich [5] two-source inner product extractor and its multibit variant by Dodis et al. [9]. Previously, research in this area focused on the construction of seeded extractors secure against quantum adversaries; the multi-source setting poses new challenges, among which is the presence of entanglement that could potentially break the independence of the sources.