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Lattice-based cryptography is a foundation for post-quantum security, with the Learning with Errors (LWE) problem as a core component in key exchange, encryption, and homomorphic computation. Structured variants like Ring-LWE (RLWE) and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Dongfang Zhao

As quantum computing technology matures, it poses a threat to the security of mainstream asymmetric cryptographic methods. In response, the National Institute of Standards and Technology released the final version of post-quantum…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Abel C. H. Chen

Quantum computing poses a threat to contemporary cryptosystems, with advances to a state in which it will cause problems predicted for the next few decades. Many of the proposed cryptosystems designed to be quantum-secure are based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Edmund Dable-Heath , Laura Casas , Victor Hertz , Christian Porter , Florian Mintert , Cong Ling

Post-quantum cryptography currently rests on a small number of hardness assumptions, posing significant risks should any one of them be compromised. This vulnerability motivates the search for new and cryptographically versatile assumptions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Jonathan Z. Lu , Alexander Poremba , Yihui Quek , Akshar Ramkumar

In this work, we introduce a novel variant of the multivariate quadratic problem, which is at the core of one of the most promising post-quantum alternatives: multivariate cryptography. In this variant, the solution of a given multivariate…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Antoine Joux , Rocco Mora

We study the complexity of lattice problems in a world where algorithms, reductions, and protocols can run in superpolynomial time, revisiting four foundational results: two worst-case to average-case reductions and two protocols. We also…

Quantum computers impose an immense threat to system security. As a countermeasure, new cryptographic classes have been created to prevent these attacks. Technologies such as post-quantum cryptography and quantum cryptography. Quantum…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Luiz Filipi Anderson de Sousa Moura , Carlos Becker Westphall

Block ciphers are versatile cryptographic ingredients that are used in a wide range of applications ranging from secure Internet communications to disk encryption. While post-quantum security of public-key cryptography has received…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Gorjan Alagic , Chen Bai , Christian Majenz , Kaiyan Shi

Post-quantum cryptography has gained attention due to the need for secure cryptographic systems in the face of quantum computing. Code-based and lattice-based cryptography are two prominent approaches, both heavily studied within the NIST…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Anna-Lena Horlemann , Karan Khathuria , Marc Newman , Amin Sakzad , Carlos Vela Cabello

The development of large quantum computers will have dire consequences for cryptography. Most of the symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic algorithms are vulnerable to quantum algorithms. Grover's search algorithm gives a square root time…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Ritik Bavdekar , Eashan Jayant Chopde , Ashutosh Bhatia , Kamlesh Tiwari , Sandeep Joshua Daniel , Atul

Lattices have many significant applications in cryptography. In 2021, the $p$-adic signature scheme and public-key encryption cryptosystem were introduced. They are based on the Longest Vector Problem (LVP) and the Closest Vector Problem…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Chi Zhang

Why study Lattice-based Cryptography? There are a few ways to answer this question. 1. It is useful to have cryptosystems that are based on a variety of hard computational problems so the different cryptosystems are not all vulnerable in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Yang Li , Kee Siong Ng , Michael Purcell

A fundamental computational problem is to find a shortest non-zero vector in Euclidean lattices, a problem known as the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP). This problem is believed to be hard even on quantum computers and thus plays a pivotal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 Martin R. Albrecht , Miloš Prokop , Yixin Shen , Petros Wallden

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Omar Alnaseri , Yassine Himeur , Shadi Atalla , Wathiq Mansoor

6G networks will require quantum-secure cryptography deployed across core infrastructure, edge nodes, resource-constrained IoT devices. Although post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) algorithms have been standardized by NIST, their practical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ananya Kudaloor , Adnan Aijaz

This paper studies how post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) security assumptions can be represented and communicated through a structured, layered framework that is useful for technical interpretation but does not replace formal cryptographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Daisuke Ishii , Rizwan Jahangir

Quantum computing is reshaping the security landscape of modern telecommunications. The cryptographic foundations that secure todays 5G systems, including RSA, Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), and Diffie-Hellman (DH), are all susceptible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Vipin Rathi , Lakshya Chopra , Rudraksh Rawal , Nitin Rajput , Shiva Valia , Madhav Aggarwal , Aditya Gairola

Quantum computer is no longer a hypothetical idea. It is the worlds most important technology and there is a race among countries to get supremacy in quantum technology. Its the technology that will reduce the computing time from years to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Manish Kumar

The imminent threat of quantum computing necessitates quantum-resistant cryptosystems. This paper establishes tight security bounds for two NIST PQC finalists: SPHINCS+ (hash-based) and NTRU (lattice-based). Our key contributions include:…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Ruopengyu Xu , Chenglian Liu

Confidentiality in our digital world is based on the security of cryptographic algorithms. These are usually executed transparently in the background, with people often relying on them without further knowledge. In the course of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Peter Hillmann