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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-discrete-mathematical-sciences-and-cryptography</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0065</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0972-0529</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JDMSC-3019</article-id>
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        <article-title>Secure cross-border medical data exchange using post-quantum cryptography</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Assudani</surname>
            <given-names>Manish K.</given-names>
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          <aff>Department of Computer Science &amp; Engineering, Anjuman College of Engineering &amp; Technology, Nagpur, Maharashtra, 440022, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Shriyal</surname>
            <given-names>Swati Shivkumar</given-names>
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          <aff>Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vishwakarma University, Pune, Maharashtra, 411048, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Sharma</surname>
            <given-names>Prabhat</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Centre for Research Impact and Outcome, Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, 140417, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Mounika</surname>
            <given-names>Nagireddy</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Anurag University, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500088, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Goyal</surname>
            <given-names>Samaksh</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Quantum University Research Center, Quantum University, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, 247667, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Dabhi</surname>
            <given-names>Vipulkumar M.</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Faculty of Engineering, Gokul Global University, Sidhpur, Gujarat, 384151, India</aff>
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      <volume>29</volume>
      <issue>10-A</issue>
      <fpage>3913</fpage>
      <lpage>3924</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2026</year>
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        <p>The privacy threat, cross-border regulatory differences, and emerging quantum threat are critical challenges to secure cross-border medical data exchange. The present paper suggests a post-quantum cryptography scheme based on lattice-based schemes (LWE, Ring-LWE, Module-LWE) and code-based schemes (McEliece) in order to provide long-term security. The aim is to come up with a robust architecture that ensures confidentiality, integrity and interoperability among global healthcare systems. The implementation combines hybrid-encryption, key-encapsulation schemes, and quantum-resistant, quantum-digital signatures along with secure data transmission protocols. Experimental results demonstrate an improvement in the attack resistance of 53.04 percent and a decrease in the probability of data breach by 85.19 percent over classical cryptographic systems with a reasonable computational overhead (17.94 percent increase). The framework is resistant to algorithmic threats by Shor and Grover. The research finds that future-proof medical data exchange is imperative and can be achieved with post-quantum solutions that proposed scalable and secure interoperability of healthcare across the globe.</p>
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