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Unclonable Encryption in the Haar Random Oracle Model

Cryptography and Security 2026-03-13 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We construct unclonable encryption (UE) in the Haar random oracle model, where all parties have query access to U,U,U,UTU,U^\dagger,U^*,U^T for a Haar random unitary UU. 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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@article{arxiv.2603.11437,
  title  = {Unclonable Encryption in the Haar Random Oracle Model},
  author = {James Bartusek and Eli Goldin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.11437},
  year   = {2026}
}
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