Research

Cryptographically Secure Agent-to-Agent Communication in Multi-Agent Systems

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Publication date unknown · First observed: 5 Nov 2026

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5 Nov 2026arxiv.orgobservedprimary

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Why it matters

The proposed architecture gives defenders a layered design for authenticating agents, restricting task privileges, preserving message integrity, and detecting suspicious activity across multi-agent trust boundaries.

Orange Innovation Poland researchers propose a zero-trust architecture for securing communication between AI agents against impersonation, interception, malicious prompts, and data exfiltration. The design combines decentralized identities, task-scoped credentials, mutually authenticated transport, signed message envelopes, zero-knowledge proofs, and context-aware monitoring, while examining post-quantum transport security and handshake optimization.