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Unconditionally secure quantum bit commitment is impossible

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arxiv quant-ph/9605044 v2 pith:LPJSWRPU submitted 1996-05-30 quant-ph

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The claim of quantum cryptography has always been that it can provide protocols that are unconditionally secure, that is, for which the security does not depend on any restriction on the time, space or technology available to the cheaters. We show that this claim does not hold for any quantum bit commitment protocol. Since many cryptographic tasks use bit commitment as a basic primitive, this result implies a severe setback for quantum cryptography. The model used encompasses all reasonable implementations of quantum bit commitment protocols in which the participants have not met before, including those that make use of the theory of special relativity.

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  1. Optimal fidelity estimation when one state is pure via algorithmic Uhlmann transform

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    When at least one of two quantum states is pure, the Uhlmann fidelity can be estimated with Θ(1/ε) queries and Θ(1/ε²) samples without knowing which state is pure, matching the optimal lower bounds.

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