Empowering Mobile Networks Security Resilience by Using Post-Quantum Cryptography

The transition to a cloud-native 5G Service-Based Architecture SBA improves scalability but exposes control-plane signaling to emerging quantum threats, including Harvest-Now, Decrypt-Later HNDL attacks. While NIST has standardized post-quantum cryptography PQC, practical, deployable integration ...

Post-Quantum Cryptography in the 5G Core

In this work, the conventional cryptographic algorithms used in the 5G Core are replaced with post-quantum alternatives and the practical impact of this transition is evaluated. Using a simulation environment, we model the registration and deregistration of varying numbers of user equipments UEs...

Countermind: A Multi-Layered Security Architecture for Large Language Models

The security of Large Language Model LLM applications is fundamentally challenged by "form-first" attacks like prompt injection and jailbreaking, where malicious instructions are embedded within user inputs. Conventional defenses, which rely on post hoc output filtering, are often brittle and fai...

Shill Bidding Prevention in Decentralized Auctions Using Smart Contracts

In online auctions, fraudulent behaviors such as shill bidding pose significant risks. This paper presents a conceptual framework that applies dynamic, behavior-based penalties to deter auction fraud using blockchain smart contracts. Unlike traditional post-auction detection methods, this approac...

Assessing the Latency of Network Layer Security in 5G Networks

In contrast to its predecessors, 5G supports a wide range of commercial, industrial, and critical infrastructure scenarios. One key feature of 5G, ultra-reliable low latency communication, is particularly appealing to such scenarios for its real-time capabilities. However, 5G's enhanced security,...