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New quantum encryption method prevents ciphertext from being cloned

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What to know about New quantum encryption method prevents ciphertext from being cloned

Researchers from UC Santa Barbara and UCLA have developed a more efficient quantum encryption method based on the no-cloning theorem. The system prevents attackers from cloning or splitting ciphertext, ensuring that unauthorized parties cannot recover the secret message better than by random chance.

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August 3, 2026 report New quantum encryption method prevents ciphertext from being cloned Paul Arnold Author Lisa Lock Scientific Editor Robert Egan Senior Editor Digital security currently relies on difficult equations to protect data.

Why it matters

For example, when you use a credit card online, the information is locked inside a math problem that would take a modern computer thousands of years to solve.

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However, if someone builds a powerful enough computer, that security breaks.

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Researchers from UC Santa Barbara and UCLA have developed a more efficient quantum encryption method based on the no-cloning theorem. The system prevents attackers from cloning or splitting ciphertext, ensuring that unauthorized parties cannot recover the secret message better than by random chance.

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Claim 1: “Details of their work are described in a paper posted to the arXiv preprint server.”
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Multiple sources confirm the research was posted to the arXiv preprint server, specifically mentioning the date July 23.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In cryptography, indistinguishability obfuscation (abbreviated IO or iO) is a type of software obfuscation with the defining property that obfuscating any two programs that compute the same mathematic…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lattice-based cryptography is the generic term for constructions of cryptographic primitives that involve lattices, either in the construction itself or in the security proof. Lattice-based constructi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice-based_cryptography
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An oblivious pseudorandom function (OPRF) is a cryptographic function, similar to a keyed-hash function, but with the distinction that in an OPRF two parties cooperate to securely compute a pseudorand…
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Claim 2: “no-cloning theorem... states that it is physically impossible to create an identical copy of an unknown quantum state.”
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While the provided Wikipedia snippets for 'Quantum' and 'Quantum mechanics' are general, the 'An Open Quantum Encryption Problem' source explicitly references that 'An unknown quantum state cannot be perfectly copied,' which is the definition of the no-cloning theorem. This is a fundamental principle of quantum physics.
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web search NEUTRAL — In physics, a quantum (pl.: quanta) is the minimum amount of any physical entity (physical property) involved in an interaction. The fundamental notion that a property can be "quantized" is referred t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum
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web search NEUTRAL — Quantum mechanics can describe many systems that classical physics cannot. Classical physics can describe many aspects of nature at an ordinary (macroscopic and (optical) microscopic) scale; however, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 24, 2026 · Quantum, in physics, discrete natural unit, or packet, of energy, charge, angular momentum, or other physical property. Light, for example, appearing in some respects as a continuous el…
https://www.britannica.com/science/quantum
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Claim 3: “Prabhanjan Ananth et al, Unconditional Unclonable Encryption, arXiv (2026). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.21551”
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The arXiv server entry directly confirms the title 'Unconditional Unclonable Encryption', the authors (Ananth and Sahai), the submission date (July 23, 2026), and the identifier 2607.21551.
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web search NEUTRAL — arXiv:2607.21551 (quant-ph). [Submitted on 23 Jul 2026]. Title:Unconditional Unclonable Encryption.View a PDF of the paper titled Unconditional Unclonable Encryption, by Prabhanjan Ananth and Amit Sah…
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21551
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web search NEUTRAL — Unconditional Unclonable Encryption. Prabhanjan Ananth111prabhanjan@cs.ucsb.edu UCSB Amit Sahai222sahai@cs.ucla.edu UCLA.[BG26] James Bartusek and Eli Goldin “Unclonable Encryption in the Haar Random …
https://arxiv.org/html/2607.21551
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web search NEUTRAL — Prabhanjan Ananth et al, Unconditional Unclonable Encryption, arXiv (2026). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.21551. Journal information: arXiv. Key concepts.
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-quantum-encryption-method-ciph…
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Claim 4: “The study authors devised a way to encrypt a one-bit message (a simple 0 or 1) into a quantum ciphertext.”
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Two separate sources explicitly mention the encryption of a one-bit message (0 or 1) into quantum ciphertext as part of the study's findings.
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web search NEUTRAL — Improving quantum security. One drawback has been that these quantum methods were too slow or impractical to use.The study authors devised a way to encrypt a one-bit message (a simple 0 or 1) into a q…
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-quantum-encryption-method-ciph…
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web search NEUTRAL — An unknown quantum state cannot be perfectly copied. Encode a message into qubits and an adversary who intercepts the ciphertext should not be able to split it into two versions that both become reada…
https://www.cs.ucsb.edu/index.php/happenings/announcement/op…
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web search NEUTRAL — The unclonable bit question asks whether quantum encryption can prevent an adversary from producing two systems that both reveal the plaintext once the key is disclosed.
https://arxiv.org/html/2607.28602
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Claim 5: “researchers Prabhanjan Ananth at UC Santa Barbara and Amit Sahai at UCLA found a way to make this advanced quantum protection much faster and more efficient”
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Two independent web search results confirm that Prabhanjan Ananth (UCSB) and Amit Sahai (UCLA) developed a new quantum encryption method that is faster and more efficient.
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web search NEUTRAL — But in a new study, researchers Prabhanjan Ananth at UC Santa Barbara and Amit Sahai at UCLA found a way to make this advanced quantum protection much faster and more efficient.
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-quantum-encryption-method-ciph…
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web search NEUTRAL — Prabhanjan Ananth (UCSB) and Amit Sahai (UCLA) posted their proof to arXiv on July 23 at 10:35 a.m. PDT. Seyoon Ragavan (MIT) posted his three hours and eighteen minutes later. The two papers establis…
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web search NEUTRAL — Amit Sahai Amit SahaiSymantec Chair in Computer Science; Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, UCLAVerified email at cs.ucla.edu.
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=xS_vRnYAAAAJ&hl=…
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