PRS Length Expansion

TL;DR

This paper investigates the possibility of expanding pseudo-random quantum states (PRS) in the quantum setting, providing specific examples and analyzing the relationship between key length, circuit efficiency, and expansion size.

Contribution

It conjectures that certain PRS generators can be expanded and proves this for specific cases, exploring the quantum analog of classical PRG expansion results.

Findings

Some PRS generators can be expanded in the quantum setting.

The key length, circuit efficiency, and expansion size are interrelated.

Expansion is possible for specific PRS examples.

Abstract

One of the most fundamental results in classical cryptography is that the existence of Pseudo-Random Generators (PRG) that expands $k$ bits of randomness to $k+1$ bits that are pseudo-random implies the existence of PRG that expand $k$ bits of randomness to $k+f(k)$ bits for any $f(k)=poly(k)$. It appears that cryptography in the quantum realm sometimes works differently than in the classical case. Pseudo-random quantum states (PRS) are a key primitive in quantum cryptography, that demonstrates this point. There are several open questions in quantum cryptography about PRS, one of them is - can we expand quantum pseudo-randomness in a black-box way with the same key length? Although this is known to be possible in the classical case, the answer in the quantum realm is more complex. This work conjectures that some PRS generators can be expanded, and provides a proof for such expansion for some specific examples. In addition, this work demonstrates the relationship between the key length required to expand the PRS, the efficiency of the circuit to create it and the length of the resulting expansion.