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How to Exchange Half a Bit

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Advances in Cryptology

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This paper discusses a method whereby two adversaries can exchange information worth an arbitrarily small “fraction of a bit”, in a particular setting (see [4]), although neither trusts the other.

Research sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant MCS 82–04506

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  1. R. Berger, H. Karloff, D. Shmoys, “The Crytographic Security of The Sum of Bits”, in preparation.

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Tedrick, T. (1984). How to Exchange Half a Bit. In: Chaum, D. (eds) Advances in Cryptology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4730-9_13

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