Paper 2017/538

New security notions and feasibility results for authentication of quantum data

Sumegha Garg, Henry Yuen, and Mark Zhandry

Abstract

We give a new class of security definitions for authentication in the quantum setting. These definitions capture and strengthen existing definitions of security against quantum adversaries for both classical message authentication codes (MACs) as well as full quantum state authentication schemes. The main feature of our definitions is that they precisely characterize the effective behavior of any adversary when the authentication protocol accepts, including correlations with the key. Our definitions readily yield a host of desirable properties and interesting consequences; for example, our security definition for full quantum state authentication implies that the entire secret key can be re-used if the authentication protocol succeeds. Next, we present several protocols satisfying our security definitions. We show that the classical Wegman-Carter authentication scheme with 3-universal hashing is secure against superposition attacks, as well as adversaries with quantum side information. We then present conceptually simple constructions of full quantum state authentication. Finally, we prove a lifting theorem which shows that, as long as a protocol can securely authenticate the maximally entangled state, it can securely authenticate any state, even those that are entangled with the adversary. Thus, this shows that protocols satisfying a fairly weak form of authentication security automatically satisfy a stronger notion of security (in particular, the definition of Dupuis, et al (2012)).

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Publication info
Published by the IACR in CRYPTO 2017
Keywords
Quantum message authenticationWegman-Carter authentication schemeUnitary designs.
Contact author(s)
sumeghag @ cs princeton edu
hyuen @ cs berkeley edu
mzhandry @ princeton edu
History
2017-06-08: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2017/538
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2017/538,
      author = {Sumegha Garg and Henry Yuen and Mark Zhandry},
      title = {New security notions and feasibility results for authentication of quantum data},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2017/538},
      year = {2017},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/538}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/538}
}
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