This paper provides a comprehensive, system-level taxonomy for designing quantum-resistant network architectures, moving beyond simple protocol substitutions to address key distribution and management…

The paper proposes a layered, modular network architecture combining Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) to achieve scalable, end-to-end post-quantum security in multi-h…

The paper proposes a novel post-quantum cryptography-based bidirectional authentication key exchange protocol, enhancing ML-KEM by utilizing dual-usage certificates to securely establish shared secret…

The paper proposes a provably secure path validation protocol for large-scale Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) networks that allows receivers to verify network compliance without revealing sensitive top…

This paper reviews multidimensional reconciliation techniques for Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution (CV-QKD), demonstrating how transforming the physical channel into a virtual binary chann…

This paper systematically analyzes the Quantum Bit Error Rate (QBER) in the BB84 Quantum Key Distribution protocol, demonstrating its use for quantifying channel noise and detecting eavesdropping, par…

The paper introduces Aquaman, a transparent-proxy architecture that enables quantum-resilient session-key establishment at the network edge, protecting clients that cannot natively support post-quantu…

The paper proposes a quantum anonymous secret sharing scheme that achieves sender-anonymity by integrating permutation-invariant Quantum Error Correction (QEC) codes and anonymous quantum transmission…

The paper proposes a practical, non-interactive scheme for publicly verifying quantum computations delegated from a classical user to a quantum prover, by relaxing the requirement to time-delayed veri…

The paper proposes a formal framework to analyze how the combined cryptographic transformations across all layers of a network stack determine the overall post-quantum security posture of a message.

The paper proposes a quantum-resistant quantum teleportation (QRQT) framework using post-quantum cryptography to secure the classical channel, establishing maximum secure communication distances and a…

The paper introduces a topology-hiding connectivity assurance protocol that allows network providers to cryptographically prove the existence of a secure connection in QKD networks without revealing t…

This survey provides a comprehensive review of the security challenges, threats, and mitigation strategies associated with the rapid advancement of quantum computing.

The paper introduces a unified framework for Quantum Fully Homomorphic Encryption (QFHE) that achieves exponential efficiency improvements by integrating a novel modular arithmetic program (MAP) tailo…

The paper proposes a unified, information-theoretic framework using universal hash functions to solve the bootstrapping of seedless QRNGs and to securely combine PQC and QKD keys against quantum adver…

The paper proposes a novel hybrid key distribution architecture combining Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) with Kirchhoff-law-Johnson-noise (KLJN) statistical-physical key exchange to enhance key genera…

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 a novel identity-based public key management framework, IPK-pq, utilizing NIST ML-DSA and random matrix theory to enhance the scalability and efficiency of Public Key Infrastructure…

This paper designs and validates a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) based mechanism to secure non-3GPP access in 5G networks, demonstrating that it achieves Information-Theoretic Security while improvin…

The paper proposes that decoding random quantum stabilizer codes is a robust, novel post-quantum cryptographic assumption, demonstrating that its average-case hardness implies core primitives like PKE…