ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Code Obfuscation in a Quantum World
Program obfuscation is a central building block in cryptography and has been conjectured to be crypto-complete: It subsumes virtually all known cryptographic primitives, and extends the scope of cryptography with new capabilities. Yet, when bringing quantum computation into the picture, our understanding of obfuscation is inadequate: (i) On the one hand, quantum algorithms break most known constructions of obfuscation, and the few that survive are based on poorly understood computational assumptions. (ii) On the other hand, obfuscation is limited to classical programs and thus fails to cater the potential advantages of quantum computation. The notion of obfuscation of quantum programs is…
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