Relating Quantum Tamper-Evident Encryption to Other Cryptographic Notions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02742v1
• Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 02:20:29 GMT
• Title: Relating Quantum Tamper-Evident Encryption to Other Cryptographic Notions
• Authors: Sébastien Lord,
• Abstract summary: A quantum tamper-evident encryption scheme is a non-interactive symmetric-key encryption scheme mapping classical messages to quantum ciphertexts. This quantum cryptographic primitive was first introduced by Gottesman in 2003. We further our understanding of tamper-evident encryption by formally relating it to other cryptographic primitives in an information-theoretic setting.
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• Abstract: A quantum tamper-evident encryption scheme is a non-interactive symmetric-key encryption scheme mapping classical messages to quantum ciphertexts such that an honest recipient of a ciphertext can detect with high probability any meaningful eavesdropping. This quantum cryptographic primitive was first introduced by Gottesman in 2003. Beyond formally defining this security notion, Gottesman's work had three main contributions: showing that any quantum authentication scheme is also a tamper-evident scheme, noting that a quantum key distribution scheme can be constructed from any tamper-evident scheme, and constructing a prepare-and-measure tamper-evident scheme using only Wiesner states inspired by Shor and Preskill's proof of security for the BB84 quantum key distribution scheme. In this work, we further our understanding of tamper-evident encryption by formally relating it to other cryptographic primitives in an information-theoretic setting. In particular, we show that tamper evidence implies encryption, answering a question left open by Gottesman, we show that it can be constructed from any encryption scheme with revocation and vice-versa, and we formalize an existing sketch of a construction of quantum money from any tamper-evident encryption scheme. These results also yield as a corollary that any scheme allowing the revocation of a message must be an encryption scheme. Finally, we show separations between tamper evidence and other primitives, notably that tamper evidence does not imply authentication and does not imply uncloneable encryption.

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