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An Elementary Proof of Private Random Number Generation from Bell Inequalities

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Author(s)

Carl A. Miller

Abstract

The field of device-independent quantum cryptography has seen enormous success in the past several years, including security proofs for key distribution and random number generation that account for arbitrary imperfections in the devices used. Full security proofs in the field so far are long and technically deep. In this paper we show that the concept of the mirror adversary can be used to simplify device-independent proofs. We give a short proof that any bipartite Bell violation can be used to generate private random numbers. The proof is based on elementary techniques and is self-contained.
Citation
arXiv e-Print archive

Keywords

quantum cryptography, multiplayer games, nonlocality

Citation

Miller, C. (2017), An Elementary Proof of Private Random Number Generation from Bell Inequalities, arXiv e-Print archive, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=923946, https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06597 (Accessed May 4, 2024)
Created July 20, 2017, Updated May 1, 2019