Mathematical and ethical perspectives on post-quantum security in healthcare
*Mahendra AlateCorresponding authormahendra.alate@gmail.comDirectorate of ResearchKrishna Vishwa Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University)Karad, Maharashtra, 415539, IndiaView full profile → , Akshay Hemant Gonganeshrikant.barkade@vit.eduDepartment of Engineering Science and HumanitiesVishwakarma Institute of TechnologyPune, Maharashtra, 411037, IndiaView full profile → , Yazdani Hasanyazdani.hasan@niu.edu.inDepartment of Computer Science & EngineeringNoida International UniversityGreater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, 201312, IndiaView full profile → , Abhishek Dixitabhishek1554@vardhaman.orgDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering (Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning)Vardhaman College of EngineeringShamshabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, 501218, IndiaView full profile → , A. Radha Krishnaaradhakrishna@outlook.comDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering (Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning)Pragati Engineering CollegeKakinada, Andhra Pradesh, 533437, IndiaView full profile → , Mohana Thiruchenduranmohanat@maher.ac.inDepartment of BiochemistryMeenakshi Ammal Dental College & HospitalMeenakshi Academy of Higher Education & ResearchChennai, Tamil Nadu, 600087, IndiaView full profile →
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- Received:
- 01 Mar 2026
- Published Online:
- 31 Oct 2026
- Article type:
- Research Article
- Language:
- EN
- Article no.:
- JIOS-2504
- Pages:
- 3799–3811
Abstract
Conventional healthcare cryptography is at stake with quantum computing, and migration to post quantum is problematic from a computational perspective, privacy and accountability perspective, and an ethical-governance perspective. Taking this into account, this research presents an Ethical Post-Quantum Healthcare Security (EPQ-HS) algorithm which combines mathematical privacy, mathematical ethical-risk assessment, ML-KEM-768 key establishment and ML-DSA-65 authentication. A comparative analysis with RSA-3072, ECC-P256, and lattice-based baseline is conducted and the aspects of security robustness, processing latency, privacy preservation and ethical compliance are taken into account. The experimental results reveal that EPQ-HS is highly secure, provides 97.3% security robustness, 94.8% privacy preservation and 93.7% satisfaction of ethical-compliance, and most importantly it decreases the processing latency of the cryptographic operation by 27.6% when compared with RSA-3072 under the same experimental conditions. The novelty is the combination of the quantification of the post quantum security and healthcare ethical needs in a single framework. The study offers a quantifiable security–privacy–ethics evaluation methodology and the results show that EPQ-HS offers practical, accountable and quantum-resistant security of sensitive healthcare data.
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