cs.CR · 2026-08-12 · No. 82

Cryptography and Security, 2026-08-12.

2 new papers in cs.CR. Titles, authors, abstracts. Links to arXiv. Want this in your inbox every morning? Subscribe →

01 — The papers

2 entries
  1. 01

    A Gateway Architecture for Enterprise MCP Authentication: Unifying Heterogeneous Auth, Identity Delegation, and the User / Non-User Persona Problem

    Suraj Kumar, Amy Wang, Srinivasan Manoharan

    cs.CR · cs.AI

    The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the de-facto interface for connecting LLM agents to enterprise tools, and adoption has been explosive: within a year, large organizations went from zero to dozens of internally built MCP servers. That speed created a governance crisis. Each team implemented authentication independently -- some with no auth, some with API keys, some with full OAuth -- producing a fragmented landscape with no...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.10760 · PDF

  2. 02

    On Understanding, Identifying, and Mitigating Vulnerabilities in Agentic Large Language Models

    Md Jafrin Hossain, Mohammad Arif Hossain, Nirwan Ansari

    cs.CR · cs.AI

    Large Language Models (LLMs) have undergone a shift from stateless conversational interfaces to autonomous agents capable of multi-step planning, tool invocation, code execution, and maintaining persistent memory. When these agents operate with real-world privileges---calling APIs, modifying files, and querying databases---a compromised reasoning step can trigger unauthorized data access, irreversible state changes, or cascading failures, yet...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.10530 · PDF

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