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cs.CRRecentApr 20, 2026

From Finite Enumeration to Universal Proof: Ring-Theoretic Foundations for PQC Hardware Masking Verification

Ray Iskander, Khaled Kirah

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…

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cs.CCRecentMay 31, 2026

Recursive Jump Operators and Optimal Proof Systems

Fabian Egidy

The paper investigates the relationship between optimal proof systems and recursive jump operators, showing that while the existence of a jump operator rules out optimality, the converse is provably h…

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math.CTcs.CRRecentMar 17, 2026

From Torsors to Topoi: An Introduction with a View Toward $Σ$-Protocols in Cryptography

Takao Inoué

This paper provides a focused, preparatory introduction to sheaves and topoi, establishing the necessary structural background to understand the advanced sheaf-theoretic framework used in cryptographi…

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cs.CRRecentMay 4, 2026

The 1-Bit Barrier is Universal: k-Stage Pipeline Composition and Unified Leakage Bounds for Standard Modular Reductions in PQC Hardware

Ray Iskander, Khaled Kirah

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 ($…

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cs.CRRecentApr 27, 2026

Machine-Checked Cardinality Bounds for Masked Barrett Reduction: A 1-Bit Side-Channel Leakage Barrier in Post-Quantum Cryptographic Hardware

Ray Iskander, Khaled Kirah

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.

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quant-phcs.CRRecentJun 4, 2026

On the Cryptographic Structure Required for Verifying Qubits

James Bartusek, Itay Shalit

The paper constructs strong cryptographic primitives, including key agreement and oblivious transfer, directly from classical tests of anti-commutation (ToNC) on quantum devices, while also developing…

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cs.CRRecentJun 4, 2026

Towards Worst-case Hardness for Low-Noise LPN

Divesh Aggarwal, Rishav Gupta, Hai Hoang Nguyen, Kel Zin Tan +1 more

The paper presents a new worst-case to average-case reduction for the Learning Parity with Noise (LPN) problem, achieving hardness for inverse-polynomial noise rates previously unattainable.

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cs.LOcs.CRRecentApr 11, 2026

A Constructive Proof of Rice's Theorem and the Halting Problem via Hilbert's Tenth Problem

Jonathan Brossard

The paper provides a constructive, intuitionistically valid proof of Rice's Theorem and the Halting Problem undecidability by reducing the problem to the undecidability of Hilbert's Tenth Problem (MRD…

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cs.CRquant-phRecentMay 26, 2026

A Note on Boosting Uncloneable Encryption in Microcrypt

James Bartusek, Eli Goldin

The paper establishes that the existence of many-time secure uncloneable encryption (UCE) can be shown to follow from relatively weak assumptions, such as the existence of many-time secure symmetric k…

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cs.LOcs.CRRecentMay 22, 2026

Formal Verification of Probing Security via Conditional Independence

Satoshi Kura, Katsuyuki Takashima

The paper proposes a novel formal verification method for proving the probing security of masked cryptosystems by connecting the noninterference property to conditional independence and utilizing prob…

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cs.CRRecentMay 26, 2026

Analyzing Linear Layers in Related-Differential Cryptanalysis

Yogesh Kumar, Akshay Ankush Yadav, Susanta Samanta

The paper systematically investigates the conditions under which linear layers in AES-like ciphers avoid related-differential structures, proving that the MDS property is necessary and identifying spe…

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cs.CRcs.NIRecentApr 5, 2026

Search-Bound Proximity Proofs: Binding Encrypted Geographic Search to Zero-Knowledge Verification

Yoshiyuki Ootani

The paper introduces Search-Bound Proximity Proofs (SBPP) to close an authorization provenance gap in encrypted geographic search by binding zero-knowledge proofs to specific search sessions for audit…

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cs.CRcs.LGRecentMar 19, 2026

Towards Verifiable AI with Lightweight Cryptographic Proofs of Inference

Pranay Anchuri, Matteo Campanelli, Paul Cesaretti, Rosario Gennaro +3 more

The paper introduces a lightweight, sampling-based cryptographic protocol for verifiable AI inference that drastically reduces proving overhead from minutes to milliseconds by leveraging statistical p…

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cs.CRRecentMar 17, 2026

Ciphertext-Policy ABE for $\mathsf{NC}^1$ Circuits with Constant-Size Ciphertexts from Succinct LWE

Jiaqi Liu, Yuanyi Zhang, Fang-Wei Fu

The paper presents a lattice-based Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (CP-ABE) scheme that supports $\mathsf{NC}^1$ access policies while maintaining constant-size ciphertexts.

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math.LOcs.CCTheoreticalRecentJun 11, 2026

Extended Frege proofs, circuits and rewriting

Jan Krajicek

This paper proves several properties about Extended Frege proof systems and circuit equivalence.

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quant-phcs.CRRecentMar 19, 2026

Post-Quantum Cryptography from Quantum Stabilizer Decoding

Jonathan Z. Lu, Alexander Poremba, Yihui Quek, Akshar Ramkumar

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…

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cs.CRcs.LOcs.PLRecentJun 1, 2026

Tridirectional Discriminating-Power Formal Verification of Smart Contract Reentrancy Defense Against Production-Deployed Solidity Source

Ray Iskander

The paper provides the first machine-checked, tridirectional correctness proof of the OpenZeppelin reentrancy-guard pattern against complex, production-deployed Solidity smart contract source.

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cs.CRcs.ITquant-phRecentApr 24, 2026

Module Lattice Security (Part II): Module Lattice Reduction via Optimal Sign Selection

Ming-Xing Luo

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…

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cs.CRRecentMay 3, 2026

Plausible Deniability in Fully Homomorphic Computation

Shahzad Ahmad, Stefan Rass, Zahra Seyedi

The paper introduces a framework, PD-FHC, that allows users to outsource Boolean computations to an untrusted cloud while guaranteeing both computational privacy and plausible deniability against coer…

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cs.CRcs.LGRecentMay 22, 2026

Less Effort, Shorter Proofs: Reinforcement Learning for Security Protocol Analysis in Tamarin

Matthias Cosler, Cas Cremers, Bernd Finkbeiner, Mohamed Ghanem +1 more

The paper introduces a reinforcement learning framework, inspired by AlphaZero, to automate and improve the proof search process within the Tamarin protocol analysis tool, resulting in shorter and mor…

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