Post-Quantum Primitives, Delegated Trust, and Adversarial Cryptographic Systems.
I work from primitive-level cryptographic design up through the systems that decide how trust, identity, delegation, and verification survive under adversarial conditions.
Lines of Inquiry.
Post-Quantum Primitive Design & Verification
Researching how post-quantum primitives are constructed, composed, verified, and stress-tested when they become part of real cryptographic systems.
Studying primitive-level behavior across key establishment, signing, verification, state handling, and algorithm-family composition.
Working across lattice-based, hash-based, code-based, and hybrid approaches without reducing the system to any single standardized primitive.
Modeling verification semantics, failure boundaries, negotiation behavior, and migration risk across post-quantum and hybrid environments.
Using formal methods to reason about cryptographic state transitions, authority boundaries, and failure conditions.
Delegated Trust & Identity at Scale
Designing how cryptographic authority is established, constrained, delegated, revoked, and verified across people, agents, services, and infrastructure.
Studying models for constrained authority, scoped verification, delegated action, and accountability.
Researching how trust survives algorithm migration, regional requirements, infrastructure compromise, and long-term cryptographic change.
Separating cryptographic verification from mutable operational policy, application state, and business logic.
Mapping failure modes around stale authority, replay, revocation, partial state, and adversarial infrastructure.
PQC, QKD & Physical-Layer Attacks
Investigating how post-quantum and quantum-key systems leak, fail, or become attackable when protocol assumptions meet physical measurement.
Analyzing PQC and QKD attack surfaces across protocol behavior, implementation boundaries, hardware paths, and deployment environments.
Researching photonic and optical side channels as part of a broader physical-layer attack surface.
Studying timing, emissions, environmental correlation, sensor-visible behavior, and other indirect leakage channels.
Exploring hidden-dimensional attack models for signals that are weak, noisy, indirect, or excluded from conventional assumptions.
Artifacts.
Mathematical models, specifications, and hardware trace datasets detailing current vulnerabilities.
Hidden Dimensional Exploitation Attacks on QKD
A comprehensive multimode theoretical framework detailing how adversaries can extract side-channel information from QKD systems by exploiting auxiliary photonic degrees of freedom.
Post-Quantum Primitive Composition Notes
Research notes on primitive construction, composition behavior, verification semantics, migration paths, and failure modes across post-quantum and hybrid cryptographic systems.
Delegated Authority Failure Model
A model for reasoning about constrained authority, identity, delegation, revocation, delayed verification, partial state, and adversarial infrastructure.
PQC/QKD Attack Surface Notes
Notes on post-quantum and quantum-key deployment risks across negotiation, authentication, key lifecycle, implementation boundaries, infrastructure assumptions, and physical-layer exposure.
Physical Measurement & Leakage Data
Private measurement notes and trace data related to photonic behavior, optical leakage, environmental correlation, emissions, sensor-observable effects, and hidden-dimensional attack surfaces.