Quantum Fully Homomorphic Encryption with Verification

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  • Gorjan Alagic
  • Yfke Dulek
  • Christian Schaffner
  • Florian Speelman
Fully-homomorphic encryption (FHE) enables computation on encrypted data while maintaining secrecy. Recent research has shown that such schemes exist even for quantum computation. Given the numerous applications of classical FHE (zero-knowledge proofs, secure two-party computation, obfuscation, etc.) it is reasonable to hope that quantum FHE (or QFHE) will lead to many new results in the quantum setting. However, a crucial ingredient in almost all applications of FHE is circuit verification. Classically, verification is performed by checking a transcript of the homomorphic computation. Quantumly, this strategy is impossible due to no-cloning. This leads to an important open question: can quantum computations be delegated and verified in a non-interactive manner?

In this work, we answer this question in the affirmative, by constructing a scheme for QFHE with verification (vQFHE). Our scheme provides authenticated encryption, and enables arbitrary polynomial-time quantum computations without the need of interaction between client and server. Verification is almost entirely classical; for computations that start and end with classical states, it is completely classical. As a first application, we show how to construct quantum one-time programs from classical one-time programs and vQFHE.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2017 : 23rd International Conference on the Theory
EditorsTsuyoshi Takagi, Thomas Peyrin
Volume1
PublisherSpringer
Publication date30 Nov 2017
Pages438-467
Chapter16
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-70693-1
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-70694-8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Nov 2017
Event23rd International Conference on the Theory
and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security
- Hong Kong, China
Duration: 3 Dec 20177 Dec 2017

Conference

Conference23rd International Conference on the Theory
and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security
LandChina
ByHong Kong,
Periode03/12/201707/12/2017
SeriesLecture notes in computer science
Volume10624
ISSN0302-9743

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