HQC’s Hidden Weakness: A Single Trace Reveals All

New research demonstrates a successful simple power analysis attack against the core multiplication function of the HQC post-quantum cryptosystem, highlighting critical implementation vulnerabilities.


![The band structure reveals distinct transport regimes-characterized by combinations of propagating and evanescent modes-within a system exhibiting resonant behavior, where transmission probabilities through the [latex]T^{-}\[/latex] and [latex]T^{+}\[/latex] channels are acutely sensitive to barrier width and height, demonstrating nearly zero transmission at specific energy levels and highlighting the system’s capacity for precise control over quantum phenomena.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.05970v1/x2.png)



![The Echo Chamber jailbreak exploits a vulnerability wherein a large language model can be induced to bypass safety protocols by iteratively prompting it with its own, subtly modified responses, effectively creating a self-reinforcing loop that amplifies deviations from its intended behavior and ultimately unlocks restricted functionalities-a process mathematically analogous to the divergence of a series where [latex] a_n \rightarrow 0 [/latex] but [latex] \sum a_n [/latex] does not converge.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.05742v1/figures/robot_green.png)