Complete security analysis for certified randomness

Derive a complete security analysis for the certified-randomness protocol based on planted IQP circuits, including security against polynomial-space classical provers with a time budget comparable to the verifier’s simulation time and appropriate preservation of the XEB success parameters.

Background

The paper sketches a certified-randomness application but notes that a full analysis must handle both efficient quantum adversaries and exponential-time classical adversaries constrained by polynomial space. In particular, deriving the needed classical hardness guarantee from the exponential XEB and planted-independent-space conjectures requires a reduction that preserves acceptance and failure probabilities while respecting the time and space bounds.

References

We leave these details of a complete protocol with the appropriate security guarantees for future work.

— Verifiable quantum advantage based on polynomials with planted structures  (2609.39918 - Bläser et al., 30 Sep 2026) in Section 4, subsection “Towards certified randomness from planted IQP circuits,” final paragraph before “The certified randomness protocol”