Performance and Storage Analysis of CRYSTALS Kyber As a Post Quantum Replacement for RSA and ECC

The steady advancement in quantum computer error correction technology has pushed the current record to 48 stable logical qubits, bringing us closer to machines capable of running Shor's algorithm at scales that threaten RSA and ECC cryptography. While the timeline for developing such quantum...

Post-Quantum Cryptography Implementation Considerations in TLS

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Experimental Evaluation of Post-Quantum Homomorphic Encryption for Privacy-Preserving V2X Communication

Intelligent Transportation Systems ITS fundamentally rely on vehicle-generated data for applications such as congestion monitoring and route optimization, making the preservation of user privacy a critical challenge. Homomorphic Encryption HE offers a promising solution by enabling computation on...

On Post-Quantum Cryptography Authentication for Quantum Key Distribution

The traditional way for a Quantum Key Distribution QKD user to join a quantum network is by authenticating themselves using pre-shared key material. While this approach is sufficient for small-scale networks, it becomes impractical as the network grows, due to the total quadratic increase in the...

A Novel Post-Quantum Secure Digital Signature Scheme Based on Neural Network

Digital signatures are fundamental cryptographic primitives that ensure the authenticity and integrity of digital documents. In the post-quantum era, classical public key-based signature schemes become vulnerable to brute-force and key-recovery attacks due to the computational power of quantum...

On the Security of a Code-Based PIR Scheme

Private Information Retrieval PIR schemes allow clients to retrieve files from a database without disclosing the requested file's identity to the server. In the pursuit of post-quantum security, most recent PIR schemes rely on hard lattice problems. In contrast, the so called CB-cPIR scheme stand...

Restricted Boltzmann Machine As a Probabilistic Enigma

We theoretically propose a symmetric encryption scheme based on Restricted Boltzmann Machines that functions as a probabilistic Enigma device, encoding information in the marginal distributions of visible states while utilizing bias permutations as cryptographic keys. Theoretical analysis reveals...

NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standard Algorithms Based on Quantum Random Number Generators

In recent years, the advancement of quantum computing technology has posed potential security threats to RSA cryptography and elliptic curve cryptography. In response, the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST published several Federal Information Processing Standards FIPS of...

Rethinking HSM and TPM Security in the Cloud: Real-World Attacks and Next-Gen Defenses

As organizations rapidly migrate to the cloud, the security of cryptographic key management has become a growing concern. Hardware Security Modules HSMs and Trusted Platform Modules TPMs, traditionally seen as the gold standard for securing encryption keys and digital trust, are increasingly...

Analysis of Post-Quantum Cryptography in User Equipment in 5G and Beyond

The advent of quantum computing threatens the security of classical public-key cryptographic systems, prompting the transition to post-quantum cryptography PQC. While PQC has been analyzed in theory, its performance in practical wireless communication environments remains underexplored. This pape...

Quantum Skyshield: Quantum Key Distribution and Post-Quantum Authentication for Low-Altitude Wireless Networks in Adverse Skies

Recently, low-altitude wireless networks LAWNs have emerged as a critical backbone for supporting the low-altitude economy, particularly with the densification of unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs and high-altitude platforms HAPs. To meet growing data demands, some LAWN deployments incorporate...

Quantum Blockchain Survey: Foundations, Trends, and Gaps

Quantum computing poses fundamental risks to classical blockchain systems by undermining widely used cryptographic primitives. In response, two major research directions have emerged: post-quantum blockchains, which integrate quantum-resistant algorithms, and quantum blockchains, which leverage...

Implementing and Evaluating Post-Quantum DNSSEC in CoreDNS

The emergence of quantum computers poses a significant threat to current secure service, application and/or protocol implementations that rely on RSA and ECDSA algorithms, for instance DNSSEC, because public-key cryptography based on number factorization or discrete logarithm is vulnerable to...

Quantum-Resilient Privacy Ledger (QRPL): a Sovereign Digital Currency for the Post-Quantum Era

The emergence of quantum computing presents profound challenges to existing cryptographic infrastructures, whilst the development of central bank digital currencies CBDCs has raised concerns regarding privacy preservation and excessive centralisation in digital payment systems. This paper propose...

Evaluating Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms on Resource-Constrained Devices

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CVE-2025-52473 liboqs secret-dependent branching in HQC reference implementation when compiled with Clang 17-20

liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. Multiple secret-dependent branches have been identified in the reference implementation of the HQC key encapsulation mechanism when it is compiled with Clang for optimization levels...

PT-2025-29131

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: liboqs versions prior to 0.14.0 Description: liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library providing post-quantum cryptography algorithm implementations. Secret-dependent branches were identified in the HQC key encapsulation mechanism referenc...

Quantum-Resistant Domain Name System: a Comprehensive System-Level Study

The Domain Name System DNS plays a foundational role in Internet infrastructure, yet its core protocols remain vulnerable to compromise by quantum adversaries. As cryptographically relevant quantum computers become a realistic threat, ensuring DNS confidentiality, authenticity, and integrity in t...

Building a Quantum-Safe Internet: The IETF's Plan for TLS

Learn about the latest initiatives in post-quantum cryptography, including the IETF’s plan for securing TLS...

Parallel Repetition for Post-Quantum Arguments

In this work, we show that parallel repetition of public-coin interactive arguments reduces the soundness error at an exponential rate even in the post-quantum setting. Moreover, we generalize this result to hold for threshold verifiers, where the parallel repeated verifier accepts if and only if...