[Resource Topic] 2024/1763: Quantum Black-Box Separations: Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments from Falsifiable Assumptions

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Title:
Quantum Black-Box Separations: Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments from Falsifiable Assumptions

Authors: Gorjan Alagic, Dana Dachman-Soled, Manasi Shingane, Patrick Struck

Abstract:

In their seminal work, Gentry and Wichs (STOC’11) established an impossibility result for the task of constructing an adaptively-sound SNARG via black-box reduction from a falsifiable assumption.
An exciting set of recent SNARG constructions demonstrated that, if one adopts a weaker but still quite meaningful notion of adaptive soundness, then impossibility no longer holds (Waters-Wu, Waters-Zhandry, Mathialagan-Peters-Vaikunthanathan ePrint’24). These fascinating new results raise an intriguing possibility: is there a way to remove this slight weakening of adaptive soundness, thereby completely circumventing the Gentry-Wichs impossibility?
A natural route to closing this gap would be to use a quantum black-box reduction, i.e., a reduction that can query the SNARG adversary on superpositions of inputs. This would take advantage of the fact that Gentry-Wichs only consider classical reductions. In this work, we show that this approach cannot succeed. Specifically, we extend the Gentry-Wichs impossibility result to quantum black-box reductions, and thereby establish an important limit on the power of such reductions.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1763

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