Mixed States in Quantum Rabin Oblivious Transfer

Abstract:Oblivious transfer (OT) is a fundamental cryptographic primitive that is useful for realizing any two-party computation. Since information-theoretically secure perfect OT is impossible classically and quantumly, research has focused on imperfect protocols, exploring how close to perfect one can get against unbounded dishonest parties. While current approaches often make use of pure quantum states, recent work suggests that mixed quantum states may improve performance. In this paper, we investigate the use of mixed quantum states in Rabin oblivious transfer, where a sender holds one bit and a receiver learns its value with a certain probability while the sender remains ignorant of whether the receiver learned it. We present three mixed-state protocols constructed with two distinct methods, extending an existing pure-state scheme and employing a probabilistic approach, and demonstrate improved performance compared to classical and quantum pure-state protocols across varying parameters.

arXiv:2610.09796 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2610.09796v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

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