Cryptography

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…

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.

The paper proposes a blockchain-based, AI-enhanced scheme utilizing Post-Quantum Multivariate Identity-Based Signatures and Zero-Knowledge Proofs to ensure secure key management, privacy-preserving da…

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…

The paper proposes a unified, information-theoretic framework using universal hash functions to solve the bootstrapping of seedless QRNGs and to securely combine PQC and QKD keys against quantum adver…

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 proposes a quantum-resistant Key Encapsulation Mechanism-Based Integrated Encryption Scheme (KEM-IES) that enhances the security of traditional ECIES by incorporating a Post-Quantum Cryptog…

The paper models cryptographic hybridization as a Stackelberg game where the defender optimizes algorithm selection against a resource-constrained attacker who performs conditional optimization.

The paper introduces Quantum-Safe Code Auditor, a novel static analysis framework that uses LLMs and quantum-aware risk scoring to automatically detect and prioritize quantum-vulnerable cryptographic…

This paper proposes a scalable framework for integrating Post-Quantum Cryptography into Federated Learning-enabled Internet of Medical Things systems, demonstrating reduced latency and feasible resour…

This paper designs a dual-mode systolic array for both matrix and polynomial multiplication.

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…

This paper demonstrates the feasibility of running a privacy-preserving inference for the Llama 3 LLM by integrating Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) based Lattice-based Fully Homomorphic Encryption (F…

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 Zero-Knowledge Processing Unit (ZKPU) that accelerates zero-knowledge proofs for both curve-based and hash-based protocols.

This paper conducts an extensive microbenchmark study to characterize the performance of core cryptographic workloads across various cloud services, architectures, and programming languages, identifyi…

The paper proposes a comprehensive, dual-layer architectural framework for AI identification and traceability, ensuring continuous accountability and regulatory oversight throughout the entire lifecyc…

SS-ZKR is a novel, three-mechanism protocol that enables privacy-preserving, content-based semantic routing of agent payloads across organizational trust boundaries without requiring the intermediary…

SS-ZKR is a novel, three-mechanism protocol that enables privacy-preserving, content-based semantic routing of agent payloads across organizational trust boundaries without requiring the intermediary…

This paper proposes a new signature-free BFT consensus protocol called Simple-IT, which achieves competitive throughput and latency with state-of-the-art quantum-vulnerable protocols.