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Stephan Krenn, Omid Mir, Thomas Lorünser, Sebastian Ramacher +1 more
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…
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…
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 paper quantifies the latency impact of increasing certificate chain sizes required by Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) on TLS Time to First Byte (TTFB), finding that Merkle Tree Certificates (MTC)…
Penghui Liu, Yi Niu, Xiaoxiong Zhong, Jiahui Wu +3 more
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…
The paper introduces a novel authentication-with-response scheme that halves the key consumption required for mutual authentication in Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) while maintaining unconditional se…
The paper proposes Q-FE, a novel Quantum-Native 6G Far-Edge architecture that secures Industrial IoT Digital Twins by integrating micro-digital twins, compact post-quantum key exchange, and asynchrono…
Manik Kumar Sangala, Robin Naira, Akhirul Islam, Sudip Biswas +1 more
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 multi-surface evidence framework to provide comprehensive observability for post-quantum TLS migration, enabling robust measurement of session behavior and endpoint capabilities…
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…
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…
Quantum Gatekeeper is a robust, multi-factor context-bound image steganography framework that embeds payloads using LSB and derives a gate key from a Variational Quantum Circuit (VQC), ensuring recove…
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 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…
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…
Fengxia Liu, Zixian Gong, Kun Tian, Yi Zhang +2 more
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 novel hybrid key distribution architecture combining Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) with Kirchhoff-law-Johnson-noise (KLJN) statistical-physical key exchange to enhance key genera…
The paper proposes a blockchain-based, AI-enhanced scheme utilizing Post-Quantum Multivariate Identity-Based Signatures and Zero-Knowledge Proofs to ensure secure key management, privacy-preserving da…
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…
This paper presents a quantum attack on Module-LWE based lattice schemes like ML-KEM, demonstrating a polynomial-time quantum algorithm with a high success probability.