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Unconditional Certified Randomness without Structure

Aug 2026 · 0 citations
Physics Computer Science

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A certified randomness protocol in the quantum random oracle model is obtained that proves unconditional security of this protocol against adversaries making subexponentially-many adaptive quantum queries to the random oracle.

Abstract

We obtain a certified randomness protocol in the quantum random oracle model. The protocol is non-interactive and publicly verifiable with a classical verifier, and is based on Yamakawa and Zhandry's proof of quantumness [JACM'24]. We prove unconditional security of this protocol against adversaries making subexponentially-many adaptive quantum queries to the random oracle. Prior work on certified randomness relative to a random oracle additionally assumed the Aaronson--Ambainis conjecture or proved security only against low query-depth adversaries.

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