NoisePQC++: A Unified NIST-Compliant PQC and Hybrid-PQC Implementation of the Noise Protocol

arXiv:2608.00954 · cs.CR, cs.NI, quant-ph · Submitted 2026-08-02 · Read on arXiv

Nadeem Ahmed, Aryya Gangopadhyay, Lei Zhang

cs.CR, cs.NI, quant-ph

Submitted: 2026-08-02

Comments: 11 pages. Accepted to be presented and published at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering

Code: https://github.com/nata11/NoisePQC

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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