Paper 2023/306

A Simple Construction of Quantum Public-Key Encryption from Quantum-Secure One-Way Functions

Khashayar Barooti, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Giulio Malavolta, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Michael Walter, Ruhr University Bochum
Abstract

Quantum public-key encryption [Gottesman; Kawachi et al., Eurocrypt’05] generalizes public-key encryption (PKE) by allowing the public keys to be quantum states. Prior work indicated that quantum PKE can be constructed from assumptions that are potentially weaker than those needed to realize its classical counterpart. In this work, we show that quantum PKE can be constructed from any quantum-secure one-way function. In contrast, classical PKE is believed to require more structured assumptions. Our construction is simple, uses only classical ciphertexts, and satisfies the strong notion of CCA security.

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Preprint.
Keywords
Quantum cryptographyFoundations
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khashayar barooti @ epfl ch
giulio malavolta @ hotmail it
michael walter @ rub de
History
2023-03-03: approved
2023-03-01: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2023/306
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/306,
      author = {Khashayar Barooti and Giulio Malavolta and Michael Walter},
      title = {A Simple Construction of Quantum Public-Key Encryption from Quantum-Secure One-Way Functions},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/306},
      year = {2023},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/306}
}
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