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Multiparty quantum key agreement (MQKA) enables $n \geq 3$ mutually distrustful users to establish a shared secret key through collaborative quantum protocols. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review where we argue that MQKA is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Malik Mouaji , Saif Al-Kuwari

With careful manipulation, malicious agents can reverse engineer private information encoded in pre-trained language models. Security concerns motivate the development of quantum pre-training. In this work, we propose a highly Portable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Shuyue Stella Li , Xiangyu Zhang , Shu Zhou , Hongchao Shu , Ruixing Liang , Hexin Liu , Leibny Paola Garcia

As quantum computing continues to advance, the development of quantum-secure neural networks is crucial to prevent adversarial attacks. This paper proposes three quantum-secure design principles: (1) using post-quantum cryptography, (2)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Eric Yocam , Anthony Rizi , Mahesh Kamepalli , Varghese Vaidyan , Yong Wang , Gurcan Comert

As quantum computing platforms increasingly adopt cloud-based execution, users submit quantum circuits to remote compilers and backends, trusting that what they submit is exactly what will be run. This shift introduces new trust assumptions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Amal Raj , Vivek Balachandran

Advancements in quantum computing pose a significant threat to most of the cryptography currently deployed. Fortunately, cryptographic building blocks to mitigate the threat are already available; mostly based on post-quantum and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Jaime S. Buruaga , Augustine Bugler , Juan P. Brito , Vicente Martin , Christoph Striecks

Secure key leasing (SKL) enables the holder of a secret key for a cryptographic function to temporarily lease the key using quantum information. Later, the recipient can produce a deletion certificate, which proves that they no longer have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Fuyuki Kitagawa , Ryo Nishimaki , Nikhil Pappu

The advent of large-scale quantum computers poses a significant threat to contemporary network security protocols, including Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)-Enterprise authentication. To mitigate this threat, the adoption of Post-Quantum…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Lukas Köder , Nils Lohmiller , Phil Schmieder , Bastian Buck , Michael Menth , Tobias Heer

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

Quantum computers create new security risks for today's encryption systems. This paper presents an improved version of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) that uses quantum technology to strengthen protection. Our approach offers two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Albert Nieto-Morales , Arit Kumar Bishwas , Joel Jacob Varghese

Since communication signals are publicly exposed while they transmit across space, Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are where secured communication is most crucial. Unfortunately, these systems are more open to intrusions that range from passive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-01 B. Murugeshwari , R. Amirthavalli , C. Bharathi Sri , S. Neelavathy Pari

As AI agents increasingly operate in complex environments, ensuring reliable, context-aware privacy is critical for regulatory compliance. Traditional access controls are insufficient because privacy risks often arise after access is…

Current methods for authentication and key agreement based on public-key cryptography are vulnerable to quantum computing. We propose a novel approach based on artificial intelligence research in which communicating parties are viewed as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Ibrahim H. Ahmed , Josiah P. Hanna , Elliot Fosong , Stefano V. Albrecht

Benefiting from cloud computing, today's early-stage quantum computers can be remotely accessed via the cloud services, known as Quantum-as-a-Service (QaaS). However, it poses a high risk of data leakage in quantum machine learning (QML).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Zhepeng Wang , Yi Sheng , Nirajan Koirala , Kanad Basu , Taeho Jung , Cheng-Chang Lu , Weiwen Jiang

With the advent of quantum computing, the increasing threats to security poses a great challenge to communication networks. Recent innovations in this field resulted in promising technologies such as Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ane Sanz , Asier Atutxa , David Franco , Jasone Astorga , Eduardo Jacob , Diego López

Continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) is a quantum communication technology that offers an unconditional security guarantee. However, the practical deployment of CV-QKD systems remains vulnerable to various quantum attacks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Chao Ding , Shi Wang , Jingtao Sun , Yaonan Wang , Daoyi Dong , Weibo Gao

Real-time LLM interactions demand streamed token generations, where text tokens are progressively generated and delivered to users while balancing two objectives: responsiveness (i.e., low time-to-first-token) and steady generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Junyi Chen , Chuheng Du , Renyuan Liu , Shuochao Yao , Dingtian Yan , Jiang Liao , Shengzhong Liu , Fan Wu , Guihai Chen

Secure quantum communication traditionally assumes that the adversary controls only the public channel. We consider a more powerful adversary who can demand private information of users. This type of adversary has been studied in public key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Trey Li

Quantum key distribution (QKD) enables unconditionally secure symmetric key exchange between parties. However, terrestrial fibre-optic links face inherent distance constraints due to quantum signal degradation. Traditional solutions to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Aitor Brazaola-Vicario , Oscar Lage , Julen Bernabé-Rodríguez , Eduardo Jacob , Jasone Astorga

We consider the problem of post-quantum secure and ultra-reliable communication through a heterogeneous network consisting of multiple connections. Three performance metrics are considered: security, throughput, and in-order delivery delay.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Alejandro Cohen , John Robinson , Thomas Stahlbuhk , Muriel Médard

In the first part of the paper, we show a generic compiler that transforms any oracle algorithm that can query multiple oracles adaptively, i.e., can decide on which oracle to query at what point dependent on previous oracle responses, into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Jelle Don , Serge Fehr , Yu-Hsuan Huang