Practically secure quantum position verification

Abstract

We discuss quantum position verification (QPV) protocols in which the verifiers create and send single-qubit states to the prover. QPV protocols using single-qubit states are known to be insecure against adversaries that share a small number of entangled qubits. We introduce QPV protocols that are practically secure: they only require single-qubit states from each of the verifiers, yet their security is broken if the adversaries sharing an impractically large number of entangled qubits employ teleportation-based attacks. These protocols are a modification of known QPV protocols in which we include a classical random oracle without altering the amount of quantum resources needed by the verifiers. We present a cheating strategy that requires a number of entangled qubits shared among the adversaries that grows exponentially with the size of the classical input of the random oracle.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2021
Source ID
10.1088/1367-2630/ac0755

Entities

People

  • George Siopsis
  • Siddhartha Das

Organizations

  • Army Research Office
  • Office of Multidisciplinary Activities
  • Office of Naval Research

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
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Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Science - Quantum Key Distribution