Efficient Certifiable Randomness from a Single Quantum Device

04/24/2022

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by   Urmila Mahadev, et al.

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Brakerski et. al [BCM+18] introduced the model of cryptographic testing of a single untrusted quantum device and gave a protocol for certifiable randomness generation. We use the leakage resilience properties of the Learning With Errors problem to address a key issue left open in previous work - the rate of generation of randomness. Our new protocol can certify Ω(n) fresh bits of randomness in constant rounds, where n is a parameter of the protocol and the total communication is O(n), thus achieving a nearly optimal rate. The proof that the output is statistically random is conceptually simple and technically elementary.