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.

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 analyzes the differential properties of the SIMON32 cipher, identifying high-probability differentials to improve the efficiency and depth of cryptanalysis beyond current state-of-the-art me…

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 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 presents a quantum attack on Module-LWE based lattice schemes like ML-KEM, demonstrating a polynomial-time quantum algorithm with a high success probability.

This paper systematically analyzes the Quantum Bit Error Rate (QBER) in the BB84 Quantum Key Distribution protocol, demonstrating its use for quantifying channel noise and detecting eavesdropping, par…

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

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 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 estimates the quantum resources required to break 256-bit ECC cryptography and warns that fast-clock quantum computers could enable on-spend attacks on modern cryptocurrencies, necessitating…

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…

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 proposes a quantum-resilient session-key establishment scheme that fragments a new key across multiple, independently encrypted Tor circuits, requiring an adversary to compromise many circui…

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…

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

This paper provides the first systematic, isolated benchmarks of NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography (ML-KEM and ML-DSA) on the highly constrained ARM Cortex-M0+ processor, showing performance…

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…