Computational Cryptography from Pseudoentanglement

arXiv:2609.29917 · quant-ph, cs.CR · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

quant-ph, cs.CR

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Project page: https://sattath.github.io/microcrypt-zoo

Terminology

• Entanglement — 130× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 51× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace Distance — 39× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hilbert Space — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ancilla Qubits — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Quantum Circuits — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Local Operations and Classical Communication — 1× in this paper
• Pretty Good Measurement — 1× in this paper
• Quantum Polynomial Time — 1× in this paper
• Verifiability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Computational Entanglement Theory
• Pseudorandomness from Subset States
• Pseudo-Entanglement is Necessary for EFI Pairs
• Principles of Quantum Communication Theory: A Modern Approach
• Pretty simple bounds on quantum state discrimination
• Efficient Entanglement Manipulation Cookbook: From Mixing to a Computational Second Law

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