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### Paper: New Approaches for Quantum Copy-Protection

Authors: Scott Aaronson , The University of Texas at Austin Jiahui Liu , The University of Texas at Austin Qipeng Liu , Princeton University Mark Zhandry , Princeton University and NTT Research Ruizhe Zhang , The University of Texas at Austin DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84242-0_19 (login may be required) Search ePrint Search Google CRYPTO 2021 Quantum copy protection uses the unclonability of quantum states to construct quantum software that provably cannot be pirated. Copy protection would be immensely useful, but unfortunately little is known about how to achieve it in general. In this work, we make progress on this goal, by giving the following results: * We show how to copy protect any program that cannot be learned from its input-output behavior, relative to a classical oracle. This improves on Aaronson (CCC 2009), which achieves the same relative to a quantum oracle. By instantiating the oracle with post-quantum candidate obfuscation schemes, we obtain a heuristic construction of copy protection. * We show, roughly, that any program which can be watermarked can be copy detected, a weaker version of copy protection that does not prevent copying, but guarantees that any copying can be detected. Our scheme relies on the security of the assumed watermarking, plus the assumed existence of public key quantum money. Our construction is general, applicable to many recent watermarking schemes.
##### BibTeX
@inproceedings{crypto-2021-31203,
title={New Approaches for Quantum Copy-Protection},
publisher={Springer-Verlag},
doi={10.1007/978-3-030-84242-0_19},
author={Scott Aaronson and Jiahui Liu and Qipeng Liu and Mark Zhandry and Ruizhe Zhang},
year=2021
}