Quantum-resilient randomness extraction

  • Authors:
  • Renato Renner

  • Affiliations:
  • ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • ICITS'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Information theoretic security
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Randomness extraction is the art of distilling almost perfectly random bits from an entropy source. Since the source can generally be considered as one that emits classical data, randomness extraction is usually analyzed within the framework of classical probability theory. However, it has been realized recently that this classical treatment is limited: it does not cover situations where the source--while still emitting classical data--is correlated to quantum side information. Here, we review some recent work that overcomes this limitation.