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Standardization of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) was started by NIST in 2016 and has proceeded to its second elimination round. The upcoming standards are intended to replace (or supplement) current RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptography…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen

Quantum computing threatens the security foundations of consumer electronics (CE). Preparing the diverse CE ecosystem, particularly resource-constrained devices, for the post-quantum era requires quantitative understanding of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Daniel Commey , Benjamin Appiah , Griffith S. Klogo , Winful Bagyl-Bac , James D. Gadze , Yousef Alsenani , Garth V. Crosby

Quantum computers threaten widely deployed cryptographic primitives such as RSA, DSA, and ECC. While NIST has released post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) standards (e.g., Kyber, Dilithium), mobile app ecosystems remain largely unprepared for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Joseph Strauss , Krishna Upadhyay , A. B. Siddique , Ibrahim Baggili , Umar Farooq

The rapid development of quantum computing poses a significant threat to the security of current cryptographic systems, including those used in User Equipment (UE) for mobile communications. Conventional cryptographic algorithms such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Sanzida Hoque , Abdullah Aydeger , Engin Zeydan

The advent of quantum computing poses significant threats to classical public-key cryptographic primitives such as RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography. As many critical network and security protocols depend on these primitives for key…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Tushin Mallick , Ashish Kundu , Ramana Kompella

Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) introduces significant computational and communication overhead, which poses challenges for resource-constrained computer systems, Internet of Things (IoT), and Industrial IoT (IIoT) devices. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jonatan Rassekhnia

The rapid advancement of quantum computing poses a critical threat to classical cryptographic algorithms such as RSA and ECC, particularly in Internet of Things (IoT) devices, where secure communication is essential but often constrained by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Jesus Lopez , Viviana Cadena , Mohammad Saidur Rahman

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Abel C. H. Chen

The problem of adopting quantum-resistant cryptographic network protocols or post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is critically important to democratizing quantum computing. The problem is urgent because practical quantum computers will break…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Jakub Sowa , Bach Hoang , Advaith Yeluru , Steven Qie , Anita Nikolich , Ravishankar Iyer , Phuong Cao

Network slicing is considered a key enabler to 5th Generation (5G) communication networks. Mobile network operators may deploy network slices -- complete logical networks customized for specific services expecting a certain Quality of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Sebastian Gallenmüller , Johannes Naab , Iris Adam , Georg Carle

The rapid development of quantum computers threatens traditional cryptographic schemes, prompting the need for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). Although the NIST standardization process has accelerated the development of such algorithms,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Mauro Conti , Francesco Marchiori , Sebastiano Matarazzo , Marco Rubin

Modern web traffic relies on 2048-bit RSA encryption to secure our data in transit. Rapid advances in Quantum Computing pose a grave challenge by allowing hackers to break this encryption in hours. In August of 2024, the National Institute…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Ananya Tadepalli

To support emerging mobile use cases (e.g., AR/VR, autonomous driving, and massive IoT), next-generation mobile cores for 5G and 6G are being re-architected as service-based architectures (SBAs) running on both private and public clouds.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Bilal Saleem , Omar Basit , Jiayi Meng , Iftekhar Alam , Ajay Thakur , Christian Maciocco , Muhammad Shahbaz , Y. Charlie Hu , Larry Peterson

Cloud-native application platforms and latency-sensitive systems such as 5G Core networks rely heavily on certificate-based Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and mutual TLS to secure service-to-service communication. While effective, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Vipin Kumar Rathi , Lakshya Chopra , Nikhil Kumar Rajput

Along with the potential emergence of quantum computing, safety and security of new and complex communication services such as automated driving need to be redefined in the post-quantum era. To ensure reliable, continuous and secure…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Engin Zeydan , Yekta Turk , Berkin Aksoy , Yaman Yagiz Tasbag

Advances in quantum computing increasingly threaten the security and privacy of data protected by current cryptosystems, particularly those relying on public-key cryptography. In response, the international cybersecurity community has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Marthin Toruan , R. D. N. Shakya , Samuel Tseitkin , Raymond K. Zhao , Nalin Arachchilage

Network-centric quantum communications (NQC) - a new, scalable instantiation of quantum cryptography providing key management with forward security for lightweight encryption, authentication and digital signatures in optical networks - is…

Organisations are upgrading their cryptographic infrastructure to become quantum safe before large scale quantum computers materialise. Post quantum cryptography (PQC) standards now exist for key exchange and digital signatures, but the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Harish Balaji , Aarav Varshney , Prasanna Ravi , Sripal Jain , Robin Foe , Jorden Seet , Huaxiong Wang , Kwok-Yan Lam , Anupam Chattopadhyay

5G marks a major departure from previous cellular architectures, by transitioning from a monolithic design of the core network to a Service-Based Architecture (SBA) where services are modularized as Network Functions (NFs) which communicate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Anqi Chen , Riccardo Preatoni , Alessandro Brighente , Mauro Conti , Cristina Nita-Rotaru

In recent years, with the advancement of quantum computing, mainstream asymmetric cryptographic methods in the current Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) systems are gradually being threatened. Therefore, this study explores X.509 security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Abel C. H. Chen