Scientific knowledge map · Paper #77
Towards Further Realizing Random Oracles: Post-Quantum Non-Malleable Point Obfuscation
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- Theory
Research question
What does the paper try to establish?
Can a post-quantum point-function obfuscation notion resist malleation while reproducing a useful aspect of random-oracle behavior?
Central answer
What is the proposed answer?
The title establishes this research objective, and a NIST administrative email verifies that a manuscript with this title and author list entered an internal review process in 2021. No public manuscript was located, so the construction, security notion, quantum-access model, assumptions, theorem, and proof remain unaudited.
Evidence profile
Six dimensions, kept separate
The chart summarizes documented evidence and process. It is not a correctness probability, confidence score, or ranking, and no composite score is calculated.
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A smaller value means less documented support for that dimension, not that the paper is false or unimportant.
- Epistemic evidence Low
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The title and NIST email establish identity, objective, and administrative history, but no manuscript, definition, construction, theorem, proof, or technical artifact was located.
Author-site paper metadata NIST administrative manuscript provenance Documented full-text search gap - Auditability Low
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No paper-specific public archive or author-hosted manuscript was located. The NIST email is inspectable provenance but does not expose assumptions, evidence, or version content.
NIST administrative manuscript provenance Documented full-text search gap - Production provenance Medium
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Named authorship, ongoing-work status, submission date, and ERB control number provide a concrete human and lifecycle trail. Contributor roles, revisions, AI or tool use, and manuscript/artifact lineage remain unaudited.
Author-site paper metadata NIST administrative manuscript provenance - External scrutiny Low
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The located record documents administrative sponsor review and intended later conference review, not a completed scholarly review outcome or independent technical validation.
NIST administrative manuscript provenance - Reception Low
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The dated exact-title search located 0 scholarly citations. Under the author-defined rule, 0–8 located citations is Low, 9–10 is Medium, and 11 or more is High; the NIST email is provenance, not a citation.
Dated exact-title citation search - Contribution significance Not assessed
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The title describes an ambitious theoretical objective, but result strength, novelty, assumptions, and impact cannot be assessed without technical text.
Author-site paper metadata Documented full-text search gap
Assessment: Ai draft author review pending · 2026-07-11 · rubric 0.2. These dimensions describe documented support and process, not truth, correctness, or a universal ranking. No composite score is calculated.
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Post-quantum non-malleable point obfuscation
An ongoing theory project whose title targets a post-quantum, non-malleable point-obfuscation primitive. A NIST email verifies manuscript identity and administrative history, but no technical text is public in the located sources.
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question Research direction
title inferredCan point-function obfuscation retain a non-malleability property against quantum-capable adversaries and thereby realize a useful random-oracle-like capability?
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primitive Point obfuscation
primitive named definition unavailablePoint obfuscation is named in the title. The point-function domain, correctness condition, hiding notion, auxiliary input, reusable access, and output representation are not specified publicly.
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security property Non-malleability target
property named definition unavailableNon-malleability is explicit in the title, but the admissible relation, challenge game, adversarial output, success event, and handling of trivial transformations are unavailable.
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threat model Post-quantum adversary
adversary class named model unavailableThe title claims a post-quantum setting, but it does not disclose whether the model permits quantum advice, superposition access, quantum random-oracle queries, adaptive challenge selection, or quantum outputs.
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objective Further realizing random oracles
objective named scope unavailableThe title situates the work in a program of realizing random-oracle behavior, but the targeted functionality, application class, and sense of realization cannot be inferred safely without the manuscript.
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construction Construction unavailable
not available for auditNo algorithm, compiler, parameter set, underlying primitive, or post-quantum assumption can be extracted from the located records.
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theorem group Theorem and proof unavailable
not available for auditThe available records do not establish existence, correctness, security, efficiency, or any reduction to a named hardness assumption.
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provenance NIST ERB record administratively documented
A NIST email records that a manuscript with this title and author list was submitted on March 2, 2021 under ERB Control G2021-0620 and discusses sponsor review before intended conference peer review.
NIST administrative manuscript provenance-
limitation What the email does not establish
source scope boundaryThe email does not provide the manuscript, theorem statements, proof, public release, venue submission identity, acceptance decision, reviewer judgment, or citation evidence.
NIST administrative manuscript provenance
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evidence group Evidence status
no public technical evidence locatedNo public proof, formalization, implementation, experiment, or supplementary artifact attributable to this paper was located.
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limitation group Information needed for a substantive map
explicit unknownsManuscript audit must establish the point-obfuscation syntax, correctness and non-malleability games, quantum oracle-access model, assumptions, construction, reduction, parameter loss, efficiency, applications, and relation to prior random-oracle realizations.
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audit record Public-source search
documented searchExact-title, author-title, archive, index, NIST-record, and public-profile searches located administrative provenance but no primary technical source; the provenance record was kept separate from evidence and reception.
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artifact group Available artifacts
metadata and administrative record onlyThe represented resources are an author-site listing and a NIST administrative email; neither is the manuscript or a technical artifact.
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scrutiny Scrutiny and reception
no completed scholarly scrutiny locatedAdministrative sponsor review is provenance, not completed scholarly peer review. No venue outcome, public review, reproduction, correction, cryptanalysis, or scholarly citation was located.
NIST administrative manuscript provenance Dated exact-title citation search
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- Author-site paper metadata Paper #77 title, named authors, topic, Theory label, and Ongoing work status
- NIST administrative manuscript provenance Public email record naming the manuscript and five authors; submitted 2021-03-02 under ERB Control G2021-0620; administrative sponsor-review correspondence, not manuscript content or scholarly review
- Documented full-text search gap Search completed 2026-07-11 across exact-title and author-title web queries, IACR ePrint, arXiv, DBLP, Crossref, OpenAlex, NIST records, and discoverable author/coauthor pages; administrative provenance found but no primary full text or stable scholarly record
- Dated exact-title citation search No citing scholarly work verifiably located; the NIST administrative email was excluded from the count