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  "abstract": "Distributed authentication techniques enable edge device trust in smart manufacturing and energy infrastructure Industrial Internet of Things contexts. Existing blockchain-based authentication schemes mostly use the elliptic curve digital signature algorithm, which can be exploited by quantum adversaries using harvest-now, decrypt-later attacks to record authenticated communications for cryptanalysis. CIPHER-QNL, a post-quantum federated authentication framework, integrates three complementary mechanisms: (1) FALCON threshold signature aggregation with federated polynomial key sharding over NTRU lattice rings for distributed multi-party authentication without centralized private-key exposure; and (2) zk-STARK-based privacy-preserving verification for blockchain consensus authentication proof validation without credential disclosure. Through threshold confidentiality, reduction-based reasoning, and computational complexity analysis, the proposed framework’s security is assessed under Module-SIS and NTRU lattice hardness assumptions. Controlled harvest now, decrypt adversarial authentication scenarios are used to evaluate TON-IoT communication performance. Scalable, privacy-preserving, post-quantum authentication for distributed Industrial Internet of Things environments is shown by 99.1% authentication integrity, 98.7% threshold signature aggregation latency reduction, and 0.29% false rejection rate.",
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      "name": "Yousef Ibrahim Daradkeh"
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    {
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  "published": "2026-10-06",
  "publisher": "Springer Science and Business Media LLC",
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  "title": "Post quantum federated authentication framework for Industrial Internet of Things using FALCON threshold signatures and zero knowledge verification",
  "title_text": "Post quantum federated authentication framework for Industrial Internet of Things using FALCON threshold signatures and zero knowledge verification",
  "type": "peer-reviewed",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-30T12:17:22Z",
  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/62qggshng3mv3",
  "venue": "Scientific Reports",
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