On the Suitability of Syndrome Decoding for Proof-of-Work under Quantum Adversaries: Design and Analysis

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Proof-of-work (PoW) remains a fundamental mechanism for achieving decentralized consensus, most commonly instantiated using cryptographic hash functions. In such constructions, mining takes the form of an unstructured search problem over a large input space, where miners repeatedly evaluate candidate solutions until a valid one is found. While this design has proven effective in practice, it admits a quadratic quantum speedup via Grover’s algorithm, raising concerns about the long-term se