Privacy amplification against active attacks with strong robustness

An improvement is made to a recently proposed protocol by Wolf. Privacy amplification is achieved for communication over an insecure and non-authentic channel for sufficiently large n, the size of string S shared by the two parties, when the adversary's Renyi entropy about S exceeds only n/2 rather than 2n/3.

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