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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 Epistemic Byzantine Fault Tolerance (EBFT), a fault-tolerance model for agentic infrastructure and post-deterministic distributed systems, addressing the Honest Quorum Problem an…
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)…
The paper proposes using Merkle Tree Certificates (MTC) to create a post-quantum Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for Kubernetes and 5G/6G core networks, significantly reducing the overhead associated…
This paper experimentally compares ML-DSA and SLH-DSA in TLS 1.3, finding that placing SLH-DSA at the server leaf significantly increases computational cost and latency, suggesting upper-layer placeme…
SILMARILS presents a quantum-secure, information-theoretic designated-verifier (DV) signature scheme built on a minimal algebraic core, suitable for lightweight blockchain authentication.
The paper proposes a hash-based commit-reveal alternative to minimize the infrastructural overhead associated with adopting large post-quantum signature schemes in blockchain transactions.
Penghui Liu, Yi Niu, Xiaoxiong Zhong, Jiahui Wu +3 more
The paper proposes a novel identity-based public key management framework, IPK-pq, utilizing NIST ML-DSA and random matrix theory to enhance the scalability and efficiency of Public Key Infrastructure…
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…
Stephan Krenn, Omid Mir, Thomas Lorünser, Sebastian Ramacher +1 more
The paper proposes a provably secure path validation protocol for large-scale Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) networks that allows receivers to verify network compliance without revealing sensitive top…
The paper introduces MAGIQ, a novel, quantum-resistant framework designed to securely define and enforce communication and access-control policies within multi-agent AI systems.
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 introduces an operational post-quantum X.509 assurance framework that rigorously validates ML-KEM and ML-DSA certificates and keys across various deployment stages, achieving comprehensive d…
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 studies the resources required to batch verify Boolean functions and provides lower bounds on the witness-query tradeoff based on approximate degree.
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 proposes a novel post-quantum cryptography-based bidirectional authentication key exchange protocol, enhancing ML-KEM by utilizing dual-usage certificates to securely establish shared secret…
ORCHID introduces a novel, bio-inspired consensus protocol that uses quantum-noisy phase oscillators and a binding threshold derived from neuroscience to achieve scalable, high-fidelity consensus in d…