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Trevisan's extractor in the presence of quantum side information

De, Anindya
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Portmann, Christopher
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Vidick, Thomas  orcid-logo
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2012
SIAM Journal on Computing

Randomness extraction involves the processing of purely classical information and is therefore usually studied with in the framework of classical probability theory. However, such a classical treatment is generally too restrictive for applications where side information about the values taken by classical random variables may be represented by the state of a quantum system. This is particularly relevant in the context of cryptography, where an adversary may make use of quantum devices. Here, we show that the well-known construction paradigm for extractors proposed by Trevisan is sound in the presence of quantum side information. We exploit the modularity of this paradigm to give several concrete extractor constructions, which, e.g., extract all the conditional (smooth) min-entropy of the source using a seed of length polylogarithmic in the input, or only require the seed to be weakly random.

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research article
DOI
10.1137/100813683
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-84866427032

Author(s)
De, Anindya

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Portmann, Christopher

ETH Zürich

Vidick, Thomas  orcid-logo

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Renner, Renato

ETH Zürich

Date Issued

2012

Published in
SIAM Journal on Computing
Volume

41

Issue

4

Start page

915

End page

940

Subjects

Quantum cryptography

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Quantum information

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Randomness extractors

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Smooth min-entropy

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REVIEWED

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OTHER

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November 27, 2025
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