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The Ledger Could Be Redacted Without Losing Its Proof

A construction tied redactable authenticated data to multivariate polynomial equations with no known efficient quantum solver.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-21-015
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Summary

A construction tied redactable authenticated data to multivariate polynomial equations with no known efficient quantum solver.

The paper develops quantum-resistant tools for redactable authenticated data structures, basing inversion on solving multivariate polynomial equations. Security remains parameter- and assumption-dependent, and the work is a construction rather than deployed-chain evidence.

Why it matters

A construction tied redactable authenticated data to multivariate polynomial equations with no known efficient quantum solver.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. A construction tied redactable authenticated data to multivariate polynomial equations with no known efficient quantum solver.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-21-017

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.19401arXiv · primary research

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