[Resource Topic] 2024/1568: Oracle Separation Between Quantum Commitments and Quantum One-wayness

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Title:
Oracle Separation Between Quantum Commitments and Quantum One-wayness

Authors: John Bostanci, Boyang Chen, Barak Nehoran

Abstract:

We show that there exists a unitary quantum oracle relative to which quantum commitments exist but no (efficiently verifiable) one-way state generators exist. Both have been widely considered candidates for replacing one-way functions as the minimal assumption for cryptography—the weakest cryptographic assumption implied by all of computational cryptography. Recent work has shown that commitments can be constructed from one-way state generators, but the other direction has remained open. Our results rule out any black-box construction, and thus settle this crucial open problem, suggesting that quantum commitments (as well as its equivalency class of EFI pairs, quantum oblivious transfer, and secure quantum multiparty computation) appear to be strictly weakest among all known cryptographic

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1568

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