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Nicholas Spooner

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Preprint Sep 2026

Tight Post-Quantum Parallel Repetition for Private-Coin Arguments

We show that assuming the existence of homomorphic encryption, parallel repetition of all interactive arguments (after being run under homomorphic encryption) reduces the soundness error at a tight exponential rate even in the post-quantum setting. Moreover, we generalize this result to hold for threshold verifiers, wh...

Zvika Brakerski, Andrew Huang, Y. Kalai et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Oct 2026

Two-Sided Product Expanding Codes via Rademacher Matrices

We give a proof of the existence of two-sided product expanding codes which, unlike the earlier result of Kalachev and Panteleev (FOCS, 2025), does not rely on explicit constructions of asymptotically optimal locally testable codes ($c^3$-LTCs). For every fixed number of component codes and dimensions whose rates are b...

Eshan Chattopadhyay, Noam Ringach, Nicholas Spooner · 0 citations
Preprint Sep 2026

Computational Bounds for $f$-Routing

The $f$-routing protocol is a leading candidate for quantum position verification (Kent, Munro, and Spiller, 2011), but security guarantees for explicit functions remain limited. We prove unconditional resource lower bounds for uniform attackers; our new techniques bypass communication-complexity bounds central to prev...

Oren Renard, Nicholas Spooner · 0 citations
Preprint Sep 2026

On Removing Interaction from Quantum Proofs

An important open question in quantum cryptography is the construction of publicly-verifiable NIZKs for QMA. Classically, one can construct NIZKs for NP in the random oracle model (and sometimes in the standard model) by compiling an honest-verifier ZK (HVZK) $\Sigma$-protocol for NP using the Fiat-Shamir transformatio...

Nicholas Spooner, Max Tromanhauser · 0 citations

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