Extensible Post Quantum Cryptography Based Authentication

Cryptography underpins the security of modern digital infrastructure, from cloud services to health data. However, many widely deployed systems will become vulnerable after the advent of scalable quantum computing. Although quantum-safe cryptographic primitives have been developed, such as...

Quantum-Resilient Blockchain for Secure Transactions in UAV-Assisted Smart Agriculture Networks

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs into smart agriculture has enabled real-time monitoring, data collection, and automated farming operations. However, the high mobility, decentralized nature, and low-power communication of UAVs pose significant security challenges, particularly in...

Decentralized Multi-Authority Attribute-Based Inner-Product Functional Encryption: Noisy and Evasive Constructions from Lattices

We study multi-authority attribute-based functional encryption for noisy inner-product functionality, and propose two new primitives: 1 multi-authority attribute-based noisy inner-product functional encryption MA-ABNIPFE, which generalizes existing multi-authority attribute-based IPFE schemes by...

Post-Quantum Secure Decentralized Random Number Generation Protocol with Two Rounds of Communication in the Standard Model

Randomness plays a vital role in numerous applications, including simulation, cryptography, distributed systems, and gaming. Consequently, extensive research has been conducted to generate randomness. One such method is to design a decentralized random number generator DRNG, a protocol that enabl...

Cryptanalysis of a Lattice-Based PIR Scheme for Arbitrary Database Sizes

Private Information Retrieval PIR schemes enable users to securely retrieve files from a server without disclosing the content of their queries, thereby preserving their privacy. In 2008, Melchor and Gaborit proposed a PIR scheme that achieves a balance between communication overhead and...

Post-Quantum Cryptography: an Analysis of Code-Based and Lattice-Based Cryptosystems

Most modern cryptographic systems, such as RSA and the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange, rely on "trapdoor" mathematical functions that are presumed to be computationally difficult with existing tools. However, quantum computers will be able to break these systems using Shor's Algorithm, necessitating...

An Algebraic Approach to Asymmetric Delegation and Polymorphic Label Inference (Technical Report)

Language-based information flow control IFC enables reasoning about and enforcing security policies in decentralized applications. While information flow properties are relatively extensional and compositional, designing expressive systems that enforce such properties remains challenging. In...

Complexity of Post-Quantum Cryptography in Embedded Systems and Its Optimization Strategies

With the rapid advancements in quantum computing, traditional cryptographic schemes like Rivest-Shamir-Adleman RSA and elliptic curve cryptography ECC are becoming vulnerable, necessitating the development of quantum-resistant algorithms. The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST ha...

Google Chrome Switches to ML-KEM for Post-Quantum Cryptography Defense

Google has announced that it will be switching from KYBER to ML-KEM in its Chrome web browser as part of its ongoing efforts to defend against the risk posed by cryptographically relevant quantum computers CRQCs. "Chrome will offer a key share prediction for hybrid ML-KEM codepoint 0x11EC," David...

Improving the Cryptanalysis of Lattice-Based Public-Key Algorithms

The winner of the Best Paper Award at Crypto this year was a significant improvement to lattice-based cryptanalysis. This is important, because a bunch of NISTs post-quantum options base their security on lattice problems. I worry about standardizing on post-quantum algorithms too quickly. We are...

Experts Uncover Passive Method to Extract Private RSA Keys from SSH Connections

A new study has demonstrated that it's possible for passive network attackers to obtain private RSA host keys from a vulnerable SSH server by observing when naturally occurring computational faults that occur while the connection is being established. The Secure Shell SSH protocol is a method for...