A LAYERED QUANTUM-SAFE SECURITY FRAMEWORK IN HYBRID CLOUD: AN EVALUATION OF FULLY HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION AND POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY
Hidam Rameshwar Singh, Dr. Raghavaendra Nayaka P
The modern computing enterprises rely more on hybrid and -cloud environments, but their reliance on classical cryptography makes the environment vulnerable to quantum threats. The common RSA/ECC are now easily compromised using Shor’s algorithm while Grover’s algorithm reduces the effectiveness of AES security to almost half, making the distributed systems susceptible to potential security attacks. This paper brings out the recent trends in research on multi-cloud security strategies, the impact of quantum algorithms, the deployment framework of post quantum cryptography (PQC), Quantum key Distribution (QKD), simulation toolkits for quantum cloud environment. We proposed a Hybrid Post-Quantum Encryption Framework (HyPQEF), a layered quantum-safe framework by integrating PQC and Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) with Zero-Trust architecture. The proposed work focused on the interoperability of the framework in the distributed cloud environment, performance trade-offs, by offering security hybrid cloud infrastructure against cryptographically relevant quantum threats.
Transformative Education A Multidisciplinary Journal•Sep 1, 2026•0 citations