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Nothing can be "proven" to be quantum resistant. Even if we can show a tight reduction to LWE, and we believe that LWE is efficiently solvable (let's say LWE is not in BQP), it is still possible that the cryptosystem at the given parameters is broken. In the classical case, it doesn't matter whether or not the RSA problem is "hard" (more formally, the RSA problem is not in BPP), it matters if the RSA4096 problem has an efficient solution for many real world instances. So, yeah, the talk of "proving" security---while interesting---isn't very useful.



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