Unclonable Encryption in the Haar Random Oracle Model

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Main Authors: Bartusek, James, Goldin, Eli
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Published: 2026
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author Bartusek, James
Goldin, Eli
author_facet Bartusek, James
Goldin, Eli
contents We construct unclonable encryption (UE) in the Haar random oracle model, where all parties have query access to $U,U^\dagger,U^*,U^T$ for a Haar random unitary $U$. Our scheme satisfies the standard notion of unclonable indistinguishability security, supports reuse of the secret key, and can encrypt arbitrary-length messages. That is, we give the first evidence that (reusable) UE, which requires computational assumptions, exists in "micocrypt", a world where one-way functions may not exist. As one of our central technical contributions, we build on the recently introduced path recording framework to prove a natural ``unitary reprogramming lemma'', which may be of independent interest.
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spellingShingle Unclonable Encryption in the Haar Random Oracle Model
Bartusek, James
Goldin, Eli
Cryptography and Security
Quantum Physics
We construct unclonable encryption (UE) in the Haar random oracle model, where all parties have query access to $U,U^\dagger,U^*,U^T$ for a Haar random unitary $U$. Our scheme satisfies the standard notion of unclonable indistinguishability security, supports reuse of the secret key, and can encrypt arbitrary-length messages. That is, we give the first evidence that (reusable) UE, which requires computational assumptions, exists in "micocrypt", a world where one-way functions may not exist. As one of our central technical contributions, we build on the recently introduced path recording framework to prove a natural ``unitary reprogramming lemma'', which may be of independent interest.
title Unclonable Encryption in the Haar Random Oracle Model
topic Cryptography and Security
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11437