• Media type: Electronic Conference Proceeding; E-Article; Text
  • Title: Semidefinite Programs for Randomness Extractors
  • Contributor: Berta, Mario [Author]; Fawzi, Omar [Author]; Scholz, Volkher B. [Author]
  • imprint: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2015
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.TQC.2015.73
  • Keywords: Semidefinite programs ; Quantum adversaries ; Randomness Extractors
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  • Description: Randomness extractors are an important building block for classical and quantum cryptography. However, for many applications it is crucial that the extractors are quantum-proof, i.e., that they work even in the presence of quantum adversaries. In general, quantum-proof extractors are poorly understood and we would like to argue that in the same way as Bell inequalities (multiprover games) and communication complexity, the setting of randomness extractors provides a operationally useful framework for studying the power and limitations of a quantum memory compared to a classical one. We start by recalling how to phrase the extractor property as a quadratic program with linear constraints. We then construct a semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation for this program that is tight for some extractor constructions. Moreover, we show that this SDP relaxation is even sufficient to certify quantum-proof extractors. This gives a unifying approach to understand the stability properties of extractors against quantum adversaries. Finally, we analyze the limitations of this SDP relaxation.
  • Access State: Open Access