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12 papers

cs.CR2026

Evaluating Multimodal Steganalysis for Split-Payload Audiovisual Steganography

Prateek Paudel, Nitin Jha, Abhishek Parakh

The aim of steganography is to hide secret information inside ordinary media so that the existence of communication is hidden rather than encrypted. In audiovisual context, the ava…

cs.LG2026

Hybrid Quantum-Classical GANs for the Generation of Adversarial Network Flows

Prateek Paudel, Nitin Jha, Abhishek Parakh +1

Classical generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been applied to generate adversarial network traffic capable of attacking intrusion detection systems, but they suffer from sh…

quant-ph2026

A Novel Quantum Augmented Framework to Improve Microgrid Cybersecurity

Nitin Jha, Prateek Paudel, Abhishek Parakh +1

Small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) are redefining the energy generation landscape by enabling the deployment of modular, scalable, and pre-built power units that can be used to…

quant-ph2026

An Improved Quantum Anonymous Notification Protocol for Quantum-Augmented Networks

Nitin Jha, Abhishek Parakh, Mahadevan Subramaniam

The scalability of current quantum networks is limited due to noisy quantum components and high implementation costs, thereby limiting the security advantages that quantum networks…

quant-ph2026

Are Quantum Voting Protocols Practical?

Nitin Jha, Abhishek Parakh

Quantum voting protocols aim to offer ballot secrecy and publicly verifiable tallies using physical guarantees from quantum mechanics, rather than relying solely on computational h…

quant-ph2025

Quantum Key Distribution: Bridging Theoretical Security Proofs, Practical Attacks, and Error Correction for Quantum-Augmented Networks

Nitin Jha, Abhishek Parakh, Mahadevan Subramaniam

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is revolutionizing cryptography by promising information-theoretic security through the immutable laws of quantum mechanics. Yet, the challenge of tr…