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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>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JDMSC-3084</article-id>
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        <article-title>Algebraic and combinatorial methods for privacy-preserving authentication protocols in distributed ledger technologies</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Sethi</surname>
            <given-names>Dipak</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>School of Nursing, Noida International University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, 203201, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Korde</surname>
            <given-names>Rani Nilesh</given-names>
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          <aff>Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering Pune (CoEP), Pune, Maharashtra, 411005, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Dev</surname>
            <given-names>Anoop</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Centre for Research Impact &amp; Outcome, Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, 140401, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Goyal</surname>
            <given-names>Saumya</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>Sudhir</surname>
            <given-names>Rapaka</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Anurag University, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500088, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>Kumar</surname>
            <given-names>Madasu Ashwan</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Data Science), Vardhaman College of Engineering, Shamshabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, 501218, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Rajput</surname>
            <given-names>Chetanaba G.</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Faculty of Arts, Gokul Global University, Sidhpur, Gujarat, 384151, India</aff>
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      </contrib-group>
      <volume>29</volume>
      <issue>10-C</issue>
      <fpage>4693</fpage>
      <lpage>4704</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <abstract>
        <p>DLTs are sensitive to having secure authentication to ensure privacy, scalability, and against advanced adversaries. The method involves the combination of finite field based key generation and encoding with identity of polynomials so as to generate secure representations of users. Multi-party authentication schemes are introduced in the form of hypergraph to describe the complicated interactions between the participants and make them fault tolerant. The framework has hardness assumptions of discrete logarithm problems and combinatorial optimization problems to give cryptographic hardness. It creates a verification step based algorithm that can be used to effectively verify and has reduced communication overhead. The proposed solution is a scalable solution based on algorithmic, ensuring authentication in the next-generation distributed ledger.</p>
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        <kwd>Algebraic cryptography</kwd>
        <kwd>Distributed ledger technology</kwd>
        <kwd>Privacy-preserving authentication</kwd>
        <kwd>Hypergraph models</kwd>
        <kwd>Finite fields</kwd>
        <kwd>Polynomial encoding</kwd>
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