Blockchain and other Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) have evolved significantly in
the last years and their use has been suggested for numerous applications due to their …

We present a detailed survey of the Zero Trust (ZT) security paradigm which has a growing
number of advocates in the critical infrastructure risk management space. The article …

Abstract The National Institute of Standards and Technology is in the process of selecting
one or more public-key cryptographic algorithms through a public, competition-like process …

Data privacy concerns are increasing significantly in the context of the Internet of Things,
cloud services, edge computing, artificial intelligence applications, and other applications …

This work describes a fast fully homomorphic encryption scheme over the torus (TFHE) that
revisits, generalizes and improves the fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) based on GSW …

Smart-card based password authentication has been the most widely used two-factor
authentication (2FA) mechanism for security-critical applications (eg, e-Health, smart grid …

Rapid advances in quantum computing, together with the announcement by the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to define new standards for digitalsignature …

Abstract The Fujisaki-Okamoto (FO) transformation (CRYPTO 1999 and Journal of
Cryptology 2013) turns any weakly secure public-key encryption scheme into a strongly (ie …

Abstract The National Institute of Standards and Technology is in the process of selecting
publickey cryptographic algorithms through a public, competition-like process. The new …

This document is the supporting documentation of Falcon. It is organized as follows. Chapter
2 explains the overall design of Falcon and its rationale. Chapter 3 is a complete …