The paper introduces a four-stage structural dependency analysis hierarchy that enables scalable, sound first-order masking verification for large, production-level post-quantum cryptographic accelera…

The paper proposes a Secure Parallel Determinant Computation (SPDC) framework that enables efficient, privacy-preserving, and scalable matrix determinant calculation across multiple untrusted edge ser…

The paper analyzes the security of a partially masked hardware accelerator for Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) in PQC, demonstrating that the claimed security margins are significantly overestimated…

The paper presents a highly optimized, low-stack implementation of the HAETAE signature scheme, reducing peak stack usage significantly to enable its use on severely memory-constrained microcontroller…

The paper proposes ZK-Flex, a flexible software-hardware co-designed framework that significantly accelerates Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) generation by efficiently handling diverse polynomial and ellip…

The paper proposes ZK-Flex, a flexible software-hardware co-designed framework that significantly accelerates Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) generation by efficiently handling diverse polynomial and ellip…

This paper provides the first systematic, isolated benchmarks of NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography (ML-KEM and ML-DSA) on the highly constrained ARM Cortex-M0+ processor, showing performance…

The paper proposes using Merkle Tree Certificates (MTC) to create a post-quantum Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for Kubernetes and 5G/6G core networks, significantly reducing the overhead associated…

MEV-ACE introduces a fair ordering protocol that mitigates proposer-controlled MEV by combining authenticated economic identities, auditable commit/open messages, and verifiable delay randomness to en…

The paper proposes a trust-boundary architecture using Lean 4 to verify the deterministic structured computations surrounding LLM pipelines, providing verifiable certificates for high-stakes deploymen…

The paper introduces the base-m length codec, a canonical and robust encoding scheme that maps byte strings to lists of residues modulo m, essential for finite-ring cryptosystems.

SILMARILS presents a quantum-secure, information-theoretic designated-verifier (DV) signature scheme built on a minimal algebraic core, suitable for lightweight blockchain authentication.

The paper introduces $I$-$(OT)^2$, a novel base 1-out-of-2 Oblivious Transfer (OT) protocol designed to minimize computation and interaction for resource-constrained IoT devices.

The paper proposes a new DDH-based technique that significantly reduces the key size of multi-party Distributed Point Function (DPF) secret sharing schemes, achieving an $O( oot{3}{N})$ key size for h…

This paper experimentally compares ML-DSA and SLH-DSA in TLS 1.3, finding that placing SLH-DSA at the server leaf significantly increases computational cost and latency, suggesting upper-layer placeme…

The paper proposes Sello, a novel protocol that allows an owner to reconstruct a tamper-evident and verifiable record of AI agent actions by having a trusted receiver sign and publish receipts of the…

NANOZK introduces a novel, highly efficient zero-knowledge proof system that allows users to cryptographically verify that the output of a large language model (LLM) was generated by a specific, claim…

The paper introduces the Unicity Execution Layer, a secure, modular component that enables trustless off-chain transactions while guaranteeing double-spending prevention and enhancing user privacy.

The paper identifies a universal, statistically predictable distribution (Mandelbrot) governing LLM outputs, enabling a highly efficient, model-agnostic scoring primitive for provenance and quality as…

dstack-capsule is a Kubernetes platform that enables fine-grained, Pod-level remote attestation on Intel TDX, allowing multiple confidential workloads to share a single VM without sacrificing security…