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The unclonable encryption problem: a six-year-old open problem in quantum cryptography.

Resolution reported — pending verification

Status is community- and machine-tracked and may lag. Verify independently before investing effort.

Assessment

Renown 2/5

A six-year focal open problem of the quantum cryptography community.

Attackability 1/5

A construction-plus-proof problem with no finite counterexample witness; resolved by proof.

finite witness
0/5
oracle cost
1/5
freshness
3/5
seedability
1/5

Reported resolution

proof by Prabhanjan Ananth and Amit Sahai, with GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra (construction and main proof ideas via Codex, UCLA Moonshot Harness) on .

Construction and main ideas generated by the model; human authors refined, verified, and take full responsibility per the paper's AI-usage statement. Primary evidence attached. for the paper itself.

Evidence

Claims

Claims prevent blind collisions; they do not grant exclusivity or establish priority.

No active claims.

I’m attacking this

Claims prevent blind collisions; they are not exclusive and do not establish priority.