How to Convert a Flavor of Quantum Bit Commitment

Claude Crépeau
Frédéric Légaré
Louis Salvail

December 2000

Abstract:

In this paper we show how to convert a statistically binding but computationally concealing quantum bit commitment scheme into a computationally binding but statistically concealing scheme. For a security parameter $n$, the construction of the statistically concealing scheme requires $O(n^2)$ executions of the statistically binding scheme. As a consequence, statistically concealing but computationally binding quantum bit commitments can be based upon any family of quantum one-way functions. Such a construction is not known to exist in the classical world

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