AITH is a novel post-quantum continuous delegation protocol designed to securely establish, manage, and revoke trust relationships between humans and autonomous AI agents operating in variable environ…

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 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 introduces MCPSHIELD, a comprehensive formal security framework that systematically characterizes and provides a defense-in-depth architecture for the rapidly adopted but insecure Model Cont…

The paper develops a unified, cross-layer security framework for autonomous LLM agents operating in agentic commerce, identifying key attack vectors and proposing a layered defense architecture.

The paper introduces MolTrust, a production-deployed trust infrastructure built on W3C standards (VCs and DIDs) that provides a verifiable, multi-layered authorization framework for autonomous AI agen…

The paper systematizes the interaction between autonomous AI agents and blockchain platforms using a bidirectional trust framework, identifying significant gaps in current standards and proposing a ta…

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

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…

This paper analyzes attacks against centralized agent governance systems (SAGA) when the central provider is compromised and proposes three novel, trade-off-aware architectures (SAGA-BFT, SAGA-MON, SA…

QSignAI is an open-source platform that integrates quantum-randomness-seeded identity signatures into a conversational AI social messaging system, demonstrating a practical bidirectional link between…

The paper proposes AgentDID, a decentralized framework using DIDs and verifiable credentials to provide trustless identity authentication and dynamic state verification for autonomous, self-managed AI…

This survey analyzes the unique security threats posed by complex, multi-agent AI systems and proposes Confidential Computing (CC) using Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) as a hardware-rooted defe…

The paper argues that agent security must be treated as a systems problem, requiring the enforcement of security invariants at the system level rather than solely relying on improving the underlying A…

This paper demonstrates the integration of the quantum-resistant FALCON digital signature scheme into an MQTT-based IoT network using Raspberry Pi 5s to secure communications against future quantum at…

The paper proposes replacing individual agent autonomy with a structured 'social contract' and institutional Separation of Power (SoP) to mitigate systemic failures and deceptive behavior in multi-age…

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 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 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 Semantic Gateway and a Zero-Trust security model to formally validate and secure autonomous AI agents operating in enterprise systems, achieving a 100% discovery rate of unauthori…