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…

This paper develops and analyzes two differentially private methods for answering counting queries on quantum-encoded datasets, demonstrating improved privacy guarantees and a quantum-safe approach fo…

The paper introduces List Privacy Amplification (LPA) and proves the Quantum List Leftover Hash Lemma (QLLHL), demonstrating that it can significantly increase the achievable key length in Quantum Key…

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 introduces the Manipulate-and-Observe attack, demonstrating that by combining partial qubit interception with probing parity-leakage during reconciliation, an eavesdropper can significantly…

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

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 PolyVeil, a protocol for private Boolean summation that uses permutation matrices in the Birkhoff polytope, achieving strong security guarantees while highlighting a fundamental t…

The paper classifies the subsets of an encrypted-clone storage register, demonstrating that intermediate non-authorized subsets can leak information about the original qubit state through a parity-dep…

The paper develops a robust framework for covert quantum communication by analyzing performance over quantum channels with bounded uncertainty in transmissivity and noise, showing that worst-case secu…

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…

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…

The paper argues that current lattice-based post-quantum cryptography, which relies on injecting noise, is not unconditionally secure because advanced quantum error correction and learning techniques…

This paper introduces the first explicit data obfuscation technique to protect classical sensitive values during the execution phase of quantum computation.

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 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…

TAPAS introduces an efficient, asymmetric two-server private aggregation scheme that significantly reduces computational and communication costs for large-scale federated learning compared to existing…

This paper proves that the per-observation leakage bound for deep, multi-stage masked Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) pipelines remains constant and low ($2/q$), regardless of the pipeline's depth ($…

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 introduces a geometry-aware framework for quantum differential privacy by aligning noise to the Quantum Fisher Information (QFI) eigenstructure, achieving significantly tighter privacy-utili…