Title
An adaptive attack on Wiesner's quantum money.
Abstract
Unlike classical money, which is hard to forge for practical reasons (e.g. producing paper with a certain property), quantum money is attractive because its security might be based on the no-cloning theorem. The first quantum money scheme was introduced by Wiesner circa 1970. Although more sophisticated quantum money schemes were proposed, Wiesner's scheme remained appealing because it is both conceptually clean and relatively easy to implement. We show efficient adaptive attacks on Wiesner's quantum money scheme [Wie83] (and its variant by Bennett et al. [BBBW83]), when valid money is accepted and passed on, while invalid money is destroyed. We propose two attacks, the first is inspired by the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb testing problem [EV93, KWH+95], while the second is based on the idea of protective measurements [AAV93]. It allows us to break Wiesner's scheme with 4 possible states per qubit, and generalizations which use more than 4 states per qubit.
Year
Venue
DocType
2014
CoRR
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1404.1507
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aharon Brodutch193.12
Daniel Nagaj2575.84
O. Sattath3215.78
Dominique Unruh457538.37