Secure Computation with Shared EPR Pairs (Or: How to Teleport in Zero-Knowledge)

James Bartusek, Dakshita Khurana, Akshayaram Srinivasan

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Abstract

Can a sender non-interactively transmit one of two strings to a receiver without knowing which string was received? Does there exist minimally-interactive secure multiparty computation that only makes (black-box) use of symmetric-key primitives? We provide affirmative answers to these questions in a model where parties have access to shared EPR pairs, thus demonstrating the cryptographic power of this resource. First, we construct a one-shot (i.e., single message) string oblivious transfer (OT) protocol with random receiver bit in the shared EPR pairs model, assuming the (sub-exponential) hardness of LWE.Building on this, we show that secure teleportation through quantum channels is possible. Specifically, given the description of any quantum operation Q, a sender with (quantum) input ρ can send a single classical message that securely transmits Q(ρ) to a receiver. That is, we realize an ideal quantum channel that takes input ρ from the sender and provably delivers Q(ρ) to the receiver without revealing any other information.This immediately gives a number of applications in the shared EPR pairs model: (1) non-interactive secure computation of unidirectional classical randomized functionalities, (2) NIZK for QMA from standard (sub-exponential) hardness assumptions, and (3) a non-interactive zero-knowledge state synthesis protocol.Next, we construct a two-round (round-optimal) secure multiparty computation protocol for classical functionalities in the shared EPR pairs model that is unconditionally-secure in the (quantum-accessible) random oracle model. Classically, both of these results cannot be obtained without some form of correlated randomness shared between the parties, and the only known approach is to have a trusted dealer set up random (string) OT correlations. In the quantum world, we show that shared EPR pairs (which are simple and can be deterministically generated) are sufficient. At the heart of our work are novel techniques for making use of entangling operations to generate string OT correlations, and for instantiating the Fiat-Shamir transform using correlation-intractability in the quantum setting.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdvances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2023 - 43rd Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2023, Proceedings
EditorsHelena Handschuh, Anna Lysyanskaya
PublisherSpringer
Pages224-257
Number of pages34
ISBN (Print)9783031385537
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
EventAdvances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2023 - 43rd Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2023, Proceedings - Santa Barbara, United States
Duration: Aug 20 2023Aug 24 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14085 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceAdvances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2023 - 43rd Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2023, Proceedings
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySanta Barbara
Period8/20/238/24/23

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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