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…

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…

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

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 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…

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…

The paper introduces a topology-hiding connectivity assurance protocol that allows network providers to cryptographically prove the existence of a secure connection in QKD networks without revealing t…

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

Quantum Gatekeeper is a robust, multi-factor context-bound image steganography framework that embeds payloads using LSB and derives a gate key from a Variational Quantum Circuit (VQC), ensuring recove…

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…

The paper proposes a lightweight Zero-Knowledge authentication protocol using QR codes, enhancing the Schnorr protocol with nonces and timestamps for secure, efficient, and replay-attack-resistant aut…