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FIPS-Compliant Quantum-Secure Communication
A FinQ-affiliated collaboration with Quantropi and DLS Technology on a nested TLS 1.3 approach to quantum-secure communication.
Quantum-safe communication is not only an algorithm problem. It also has to fit standards, protocols and deployable security systems. This collaboration asked how those pieces could live together inside a FIPS-compliant architecture.
The proposal
The paper proposes a nested TLS 1.3 design that combines post-quantum cryptography with Quantum Permutation Pad data encryption. The intent is layered protection: post-quantum mechanisms establish and protect communication, while the permutation-pad approach provides an additional data-encryption layer.
Its framing is deliberately practical. Rather than treating quantum security as a clean-slate protocol, it examines how new techniques can be integrated with a widely deployed transport-security standard and the compliance expectations around it.
The collaboration
The eight-author team connected Quantropi Inc., DLS Technology Corporation and FinQ Tech Inc. Shangjie Guo was listed with the FinQ Tech affiliation; the other authors contributed through Quantropi and DLS Technology.
Because this is a multi-organization research paper, we describe it as FinQ-affiliated research—not as a publication produced by FinQ alone.