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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-3083</article-id>
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        <article-title>On the application of hypergraph theory in modeling multi-party cryptographic protocols with enhanced security guarantees</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Kumar</surname>
            <given-names>G. Vijaya</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pragati Engineering College, Surampalem, Kakinada District, Andhra Pradesh, 533437, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Kumar</surname>
            <given-names>Amit</given-names>
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          <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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          <name>
            <surname>Agarwal</surname>
            <given-names>Varya</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Quantum University Research Center, Quantum University, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, 247667, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <given-names>Khushboo</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>School of Fine Arts &amp; Design, Noida International University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, 203201, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Deepthi</surname>
            <given-names>Pochampalli</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Anurag University, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500088, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Patel</surname>
            <given-names>Nitinkumar M.</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Faculty of Engineering, Gokul Global University, Sidhpur, 384151, Gujarat, India</aff>
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      </contrib-group>
      <volume>29</volume>
      <issue>10-C</issue>
      <fpage>4683</fpage>
      <lpage>4692</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2026</year>
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        <p>The paper discusses the application of hypergraph theory to the analysis of multi-party cryptographic protocols that can provide a high level of security. The traditional graph-based models fail to capture the interaction between two or more participants at higher orders and therefore cannot be used to conduct accurate security analysis. A solution is a hypergraph-based model, in which both the vertices and hyperedges represent entities and multi-party communication and computation steps. The protocol implementation is formalized as hypergraph transformations, enabling a finesse tuning of the modeling of the concurrency, dependency and adversarial influence. Analytical analysis demonstrates a more expressiveness in which it is demonstrated that there is an increase of approximately 28.6 in the efficiency of the interaction modeling and the ability to detect attack is improved by 21.3% with respect to the conventional graph models. The proposed methodology improves protocol checking, scale-ability and resiliency. It provides a mathematically well-founded foundation in the development of efficient and secure multi-party cryptographic systems in distributed environment.</p>
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