The paper presents Broken Quantum, a comprehensive formal security audit that identifies 547 security vulnerabilities across 45 open-source quantum computing simulators, revealing critical flaws in me…

This paper addresses the operational challenge of adopting Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) in complex financial TLS environments by presenting a methodology to automatically profile and normalize cryp…

The paper introduces an operational post-quantum X.509 assurance framework that rigorously validates ML-KEM and ML-DSA certificates and keys across various deployment stages, achieving comprehensive d…

The paper introduces 'quantum-safe,' a Python library that addresses the remaining 'production gap' in post-quantum cryptography (PQC) by providing robust, easy-to-use hybrid implementations and compr…

This Systematic Literature Review (SoK) investigates PQC implementation challenges using the Human, Organisation, and Technology (HOT) framework, concluding that successful adoption requires addressin…

The paper introduces an efficient, lightweight LLM framework for smart contract auditing that decouples the audit process into multiple components, achieving high accuracy while significantly reducing…

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.

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…

This study empirically evaluates the cryptographic security of LLM-generated Rust code, finding that while general analysis tools are insufficient, a custom crypto-specific analyzer successfully ident…

QCIVET introduces a novel contract-based framework to ensure the integrity of hybrid quantum-classical pipelines by verifying both the structure (syntactic) and the behavior (semantic) of quantum stag…

The paper introduces PQC Validator, a comprehensive, layered framework designed to rigorously test and validate the actual post-quantum cryptographic readiness of cloud-native 5G Core networks, addres…

The paper introduces a semantics-first verification framework for an implemented Shor oracle for ECDLP in Qrisp, demonstrating that even seemingly correct implementations can fail due to subtle contro…

The paper estimates the quantum resources required to break 256-bit ECC cryptography and warns that fast-clock quantum computers could enable on-spend attacks on modern cryptocurrencies, necessitating…

This paper presents a GPU-accelerated implementation of a Learning with Errors (LWE)-based Key Encapsulation Mechanism (KEM), demonstrating significant speedups and energy efficiency gains on modern G…

The paper proposes 'Explainable PQC,' a layered interpretive framework designed to structure and clarify how post-quantum cryptographic security assumptions are represented and communicated, particula…

The paper empirically evaluates the security quality of LLM-generated code across various prompting methods, finding that while prompting alters the structure of weaknesses, it is insufficient to reli…

The paper proposes using deep learning to empirically test the indistinguishability of various post-quantum and hybrid cryptographic schemes, finding that no tested combination showed a significant ad…

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

QML-PipeGuard introduces a contract-based framework that monitors the behavioral fingerprint of quantum machine learning pipelines to detect both hardware drift and malicious channel substitution.

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