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Cryptography in a quantum world
Wehner, S.D.C.
Publication date 2008
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Wehner, S. D. C. (2008). Cryptography in a quantum world.
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Cryptography in a Quantum World
Academisch Proefschrift
ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de
Universiteit van Amsterdam
op gezag van de Rector Magnificus
prof.dr. D.C. van den Boom
ten overstaan van een door het college voor
promoties ingestelde commissie, in het openbaar
te verdedigen in de Agnietenkapel
op woensdag 27 februari 2008, te 14.00 uur
door
Stephanie Dorothea Christine Wehner
Promotiecommissie:
Promotor: prof.dr. H.M. Buhrman
Overige leden: prof.dr.ir. F.A. Bais prof.dr. R.J.F. Cramer prof.dr. R.H. Dijkgraaf prof.dr. A.J. Winter dr. R.M. de Wolf
Faculteit der Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Informatica
The investigations were supported by EU projects RESQ IST-2001-37559, QAP IST 015848 and the NWO vici project 2004-2009.
Copyright c 2008 by Stephanie Wehner Cover design by Frans Bartels.
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Parts of this thesis are based on material contained in the following papers:
• Cryptography from noisy storage
S. Wehner, C. Schaffner, and B. Terhal Submitted
(Chapter 11)
• Higher entropic uncertainty relations for anti-commuting
observ-ables
S. Wehner and A. Winter Submitted
(Chapter 4)
• Security of Quantum Bit String Commitment depends on the
in-formation measure
H. Buhrman, M. Christandl, P. Hayden, H.K. Lo and S. Wehner In Physical Review Letters, 97, 250501 (2006)
(long version submitted to Physical Review A) (Chapter 10)
• State Discrimination with Post-Measurement Information
M. Ballester, S. Wehner and A. Winter
To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Chapter 3)
• Entropic uncertainty relations and locking: tight bounds for
mu-tually unbiased bases
M. Ballester and S. Wehner
In Physical Review A, 75, 022319 (2007) (Chapters 4 and 5)
• Tsirelson bounds for generalized CHSH inequalities
S. Wehner
In Physical Review A, 73, 022110 (2006) (Chapter 7)
• Entanglement in Interactive Proof Systems with Binary Answers
S. Wehner
In Proceedings of STACS 2006, LNCS 3884, pages 162-171 (2006) (Chapter 9)
Other papers to which the author contributed during her time as a PhD student:
• The quantum moment problem
A. Doherty, Y. Liang, B. Toner and S. Wehner Submitted
• Security in the Bounded Quantum Storage Model
S. Wehner and J. Wullschleger Submitted
• A simple family of non-additive codes
J.A. Smolin, G. Smith and S. Wehner
In Physical Review Letters, 99, 130505 (2007)
• Analyzing Worms and Network Traffic using Compression
S. Wehner
Journal of Computer Security, Vol 15, Number 3, 303-320 (2007)
• Implications of Superstrong Nonlocality for Cryptography
H. Buhrman, M. Christandl, F. Unger, S. Wehner and A. Winter
In Proceedings of the Royal Society A, vol. 462 (2071), pages 1919-1932 (2006)
• Quantum Anonymous Transmissions
M. Christandl and S. Wehner
In Proceedings of ASIACRYPT 2005, LNCS 3788, pages 217-235 (2005)
C’est v´eritablement utile puisque c’est joli.
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