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In this work, we explore the possibility of universally composable (UC)-secure commitments using Physically Uncloneable Functions (PUFs) within a new adversarial model. We introduce the communicating malicious PUFs, i.e. malicious PUFs that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lourenço Abecasis , Paulo Mateus , Chrysoula Vlachou

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices demands robust and resource-efficient security solutions. Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs), which generate unique cryptographic keys from inherent hardware variations, offer a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Gaoxiang Li , Yu Zhuang

We introduce Quantum Spectral Authentication (QSA), a primitive for verifying that a remote quantum endpoint still possesses a previously installed secret quantum resource, such as a hidden state or state-preparation capability, without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 S. P. Kish , H. J. Vallury , J. Pieprzyk , C. Thapa , S. Camtepe

Unclonable cryptography leverages the quantum no-cloning principle to copy-protect cryptographic functionalities. While most existing works address the basic single-copy security, the stronger notion of multi-copy security remains largely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Alper Çakan , Vipul Goyal , Fuyuki Kitagawa , Ryo Nishimaki , Takashi Yamakawa

In a post-quantum world, where attackers may have access to full-scale quantum computers, all classical password-based authentication schemes will be compromised. Quantum copy-protection prevents adversaries from making copies of existing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 Sherry Wang , Carlisle Adams , Anne Broadbent

The Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) is a promising hardware security primitive because of its inherent uniqueness and low cost. To extract the device-specific variation from delay-based strong PUFs, complex routing constraints are…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Wei-Che Wang , Zhuoqi Li , Joseph Skudlarek , Mario Larouche , Michael Chen , Puneet Gupta

Digital signatures are a powerful cryptographic tool widely employed across various industries for securely authenticating the identity of a signer during communication between signers and verifiers. While quantum digital signatures have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Wusheng Wang , Masahito Hayashi

Quantum computers hold promise for solving problems intractable for classical computers, especially those with high time or space complexity. Practical quantum advantage can be said to exist for such problems when the end-to-end time for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Parikshit Pareek , Abhijith Jayakumar , Carleton Coffrin , Sidhant Misra

Quantum coin flipping (QCF) is an essential primitive for quantum cryptography. Unconditionally secure strong QCF with an arbitrarily small bias was widely believed to be impossible. But basing on a problem which cannot be solved without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Guang Ping He

Signing quantum messages has long been considered impossible even under computational assumptions. In this work, we challenge this notion and provide three innovative approaches to sign quantum messages that are the first to ensure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Mohammed Barhoush , Louis Salvail

A Physical unclonable functions (PUF), alike a fingerprint, exploits manufacturing randomness to endow each physical item with a unique identifier. One primary PUF application is the secure derivation of volatile cryptographic keys using a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Yansong Gao , Yang Su , Lei Xu , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Federated learning (FL) focuses on collaborative model training without the need to move the private data silos to a central server. Despite its several benefits, the classical FL is plagued with several limitations, such as high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Siva Sai , Abhishek Sawaika , Prabhjot Singh , Rajkumar Buyya

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

In this paper, we consider the generation and utilization of helper data for physical unclonable functions (PUFs) that provide real-valued readout symbols. Compared to classical binary PUFs, more entropy can be extracted from each basic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Robert F. H. Fischer

Advances in technology have enabled tremendous progress in the development of a highly connected ecosystem of ubiquitous computing devices collectively called the Internet of Things (IoT). Ensuring the security of IoT devices is a high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Vishalini R. Laguduva , Sheikh Ariful Islam , Sathyanarayanan Aakur , Srinivas Katkoori , Robert Karam

A quantum password is a quantum mechanical analogue of the classical password. Our proposal is completely quantum mechanical in nature, i.e. at no point is information stored and manipulated classically. We show that, in contrast to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-08 Mile Gu , Christian Weedbrook

In the modern world, facial identification is an extremely important task in which many applications rely on high performing algorithms to detect faces efficiently. Whilst classical methods of SVM and k-NN commonly used may perform to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-31 Philip Easom-McCaldin , Ahmed Bouridane , Ammar Belatreche , Richard Jiang

Security is essential for the Internet of Things (IoT). Cryptographic operations for authentication and encryption commonly rely on random input of high entropy and secure, tamper-resistant identities, which are difficult to obtain on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Peter Kietzmann , Thomas C. Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch

The rise of quantum computing/technology potentially introduces significant security challenges to cloud computing, necessitating quantum-resistant encryption strategies as well as protection schemes and methods for cloud infrastructures…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Aurelia Kusumastuti , Nikolay Tcholtchev , Philipp Lämmel , Sebastian Bock , Manfred Hauswirth

We present a memristive device based R$ ^3 $PUF construction achieving highly desired PUF properties, which are not offered by most current PUF designs: (1) High reliability, almost 100\% that is crucial for PUF-based cryptographic key…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Yansong Gao , Damith C. Ranasinghe