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Fahad Ahmad

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Open access Aug 2026

FINGERTRAP: A Self-Defending Cryptographic Protocol for Network Communications

The full protocol is described, game-based security arguments under an explicit adversarial model are provided, analytic cost estimates for the friction mechanism are given, the denial-of-service surface and a two-layer mitigation strategy are analysed, and a post-quantum extension is specified using hybrid X25519/ML-KEM-768 ratcheting.

Victoria Mellor, Mo Adda, Fahad Ahmad · Electronics · 0 citations