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Qelect Introduced as Post-Quantum Secure Leader Election Protocol

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🗳️✨ Qelect: A Breakthrough in Post-Quantum Secure Leader Election Protocols. Researchers have introduced Qelect, the first practical constant-round single secret leader election (SSLE) protocol designed to be secure against quantum attacks. Building on previous work, Qelect utilizes a multi-party randomizable commitment scheme and an adapted ring learning with errors (RLWE) problem to enhance efficiency. The protocol leverages the single instruction multiple data (SIMD) capabilities of a specific threshold fully homomorphic encryption scheme, resulting in significant performance optimizations. A prototype implementation demonstrated that Qelect operates at least two orders of magnitude faster than existing solutions, marking a significant advancement in the feasibility of deploying post-quantum cryptographic primitives in real-world applications.

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