Form: impossibility

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No 2-element split NILPs
Open: whether a 2-element split NILP can be statistically sound against affine provers for any hard relation generator, the information-theoretic core of whether Groth16’s 3-element proof size is optimal. 2 open
standardimpossibilityresearch-opennew-idea (ai)
OWFs are black-box useless for key agreement
Open in the general case, which the paper names as the central open problem left by its work. Settled for three restricted protocol classes: constant-query perfect, constant-round constant-query imperfect, and Merkle-type. 6 open
otherimpossibilityresearch-opennew-idea (ai)
No round-optimal pairing-free blind signature
Open for a polynomial query budget. The impossibility is proved when User_2 and Verify together make O(log lambda) random-oracle queries, including when oracle outputs contain group elements; the superpolynomial message space hypothesis is retained. 5 open
ggmimpossibilityresearch-openadaptation (ai)
Computationally unique VDFs in the ROM
Open under computational uniqueness, which is the notion the definition of a VDF actually requires. Settled for perfect uniqueness with perfect completeness, and settled in the tight regime even with no uniqueness assumption at all. 5 open
romimpossibilityresearch-opennew-idea (ai)
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