Making An Empty Promise With A Quantum Computer

Details Making An Empty Promise With A Quantum Computer Making An Empty Promise With A Quantum Computer

1997-09-27

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9709053v2

Fortsch.Phys. 46 (1998) 507-520

Physics

Quantum Physics

We have revised our paper to emphasize that the result applies to all bit commitment schemes (including ones with measurements

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Alice has made a decision in her mind. While she does not want to reveal it to Bob at this moment, she would like to convince Bob that she is committed to this particular decision and that she cannot change it at a later time. Is there a way for Alice to get Bob's trust? Until recently, researchers had believed that the above task can be performed with the help of quantum mechanics. And the security of the quantum scheme lies on the uncertainty principle. Nevertheless, such optimism was recently shattered by Mayers and by us, who found that Alice can always change her mind if she has a quantum computer. Here, we survey this dramatic development and its implications on the security of other quantum cryptographic schemes.

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