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)…

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 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 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…

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 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 proposes a hash-based commit-reveal alternative to minimize the infrastructural overhead associated with adopting large post-quantum signature schemes in blockchain transactions.

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…

This paper demonstrates a non-disruptive, sidecar-based integration of NIST-standardized Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) into an open-source 5G core, showing that while it introduces a predictable lat…

The paper analyzes persistent TLS misconfigurations and introduces TLSGatekeeper, a high-performance, network-based tool that enforces security policies by monitoring TLS handshakes without requiring…

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 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 study simulates various Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) signature standards for Australia's New Payments Platform, finding that Falcon-512 is the most viable candidate for maintaining Service Leve…

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 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 study empirically demonstrates that even highly technical students struggle significantly with the long-term usability and security understanding of Mutual TLS (mTLS) client authentication, sugge…

The paper introduces Quantum-Safe Code Auditor, a novel static analysis framework that uses LLMs and quantum-aware risk scoring to automatically detect and prioritize quantum-vulnerable cryptographic…

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…

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