The paper establishes a universal, machine-checked 1-Bit Barrier for the internal wire map of masked Barrett reduction, providing a strong side-channel leakage bound for post-quantum cryptography.

The paper provides machine-checked proofs demonstrating that fresh per-stage arithmetic masking ensures pipeline-level security for Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) accelerators used in Post-Quantum C…

The paper provides the first machine-checked universal proof, using ring theory, that value-independence implies identical marginal distributions for arithmetic masking, thereby extending the verifica…

The paper establishes the first machine-checked composition theorems for arithmetic masking over prime fields, demonstrating that fresh random masking between pipeline stages completely erases securit…

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…

The paper analyzes the security of a partially masked hardware accelerator for Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) in PQC, demonstrating that the claimed security margins are significantly overestimated…

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…

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…

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 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…

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 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…

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.

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 MaskedHLSVerif, a novel formal verification toolflow that accurately verifies the Power Side Channel Attack (PSCA) security of masked hardware generated by High Level Synthesis (HLS…

The paper addresses the vulnerability of zero-knowledge proximity proofs in stateful systems by proposing Zairn-ZKP, a method that embeds operational context (like drop identity and policy version) di…

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 develops a formal theory to analyze how throughput changes in AI-enhanced cybersecurity pipelines when stage capacities are perturbed by multipliers.

This paper introduces a novel algorithm, CiSC, to efficiently and optimally synthesize circuit implementations of linear codes for hardware security, significantly outperforming existing state-of-the-…

This paper extends quantum lattice reduction techniques (CDPR) from ideal to module lattices over cyclotomic rings, achieving a constant module reduction factor and providing a rigorous, bounded-preci…