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correlations. Although the relevance of non-local correlations
for cryptography was already pointed out by Ekert, the first concrete results considered the related task of randomness amplification, in which a single user, Alice, wishes to certify that two
devices in her possession generate random bits, while using as
few possible seed bits of randomness to test the device.
A protocol for randomness certification was first proposed in Colbeck,
10 and the task was experimentally demonstrated in 2012.25 Some of the ideas present in this paper
were first formulated in the analysis of a protocol for exponential randomness expansion we introduced in previous
work of the authors;
34 subsequently it was shown that even
unbounded expansion is possible.
11
Subsequent to our work on quantum key distribution a
second proof of security for DIQKD was put forward in Miller
and Shi.
23 Neither proof achieves practical parameters, a gap
recently filled by a third proof3 which establish security of a
protocol with essentially optimal noise tolerance and key rate.
Although the three proofs inevitably bear some similarity, they
seem to rely on essentially different arguments; it remains a
challenge to find a unifying framework for device-independence
that would combine their respective advantages.
Recent progress in experiments15, 18, 30 place the implementation of protocols for entanglement-based quantum
key distribution just around the corner. One may even start
to see emerging the possibility for entanglement generation not only between single-qubit devices, as are needed
for QKD, but small multi-qubit “quantum computers in
the cloud” such as the one recently demonstrated by IBM.
Computing devices sharing quantum entanglement may be
able to implement tasks beyond quantum key distribution,
from simple protocols such as, for example, quantum secret
sharing or entanglement swapping, to the complex task of
verifiable delegated computation. Although this remains a
distant prospect, it is our hope that the techniques developed in this work will find far broader applicability in the
future of quantum cryptography!
Acknowledgments
We thank the Communications editors and Gilles Brassard for
useful feedback on an earlier version of this article.
Umesh Vazirani is supported by NSF Grant CCF-1410022,
MURI Grant FA9550-18-1-0161 and a Vannevar Bush Faculty
Fellowship. Thomas Vidick is supported by AFOSR YIP award
number FA9550-16-1-0495, MURI Grant FA9550-18-1-0161,
and a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar award.
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Umesh Vazirani (vazirani@eecs.
berkeley.edu), Department of Computer
Science, UC Berkeley, Berkeley,
California, USA.
Thomas Vidick ( vidick@cms.caltech.
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