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@article{190861,
        author = {Furkan Sayyed and Srivaramangai},
        title = {Entangled Qubits and PQC: A Simulated Performance Analysis for Post-Quantum Authentication},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {8},
        pages = {5492-5502},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=190861},
        abstract = {The traditional cryptographic techniques like Shor and Grover have also become vulnerable and prone to attacks because of the use of quantum computing evolution. Therefore, it becomes essential to find a technique which will resolve this vulnerability issue. In this paper, the authors have done a comparative study of techniques like classical cryptography, post -quantum cryptography (PQC) and quantum authentication using entanglement. Experiments were carried independently using these three techniques. The authors propose a hybrid authentication system where quantum entanglement is used for identity authentication and PQC is used for securing the communications that leads to classical cryptography. The experiment used Qiskit simulations where under the noisy and hostile scenarios entanglement authentication method was tested with the Bell state. This result of this experiment brings 95%-98% of accuracy for identity authentication, and it was proved that the system resists identity and replay attacks with the increase of computational complexity.},
        keywords = {Quantum Authentication, Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), Quantum Entanglement, Bell-State Verification, Secure Identity Management, Quantum-Resilient Security, Hybrid Cryptographic Systems, Quantum Key Distribution (QKD).},
        month = {January},
        }