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In this paper, security analysis of block ciphers with key length greater than block length is proposed. When key length is significantly greater than block length and the statistical distribution of cipher system is like a uniform…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-05-21 Maghsood Parviz , Seyed Hassan Mousavi , Saeed Mirahmadi

We study the amplification of security against quantum attacks provided by iteration of block ciphers. In the classical case, the Meet-in-the-middle attack is a generic attack against those constructions. This attack reduces the time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-28 Marc Kaplan

We present the first complete implementation of the offline Simon's algorithm, and estimate its cost to attack the MAC Chaskey, the block cipher PRINCE and the NIST lightweight candidate AEAD scheme Elephant. These attacks require a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-16 Xavier Bonnetain , Samuel Jaques

Quantum computing applications in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era require algorithms that can generate shallower circuits feasible for today's quantum systems. This is particularly challenging for quantum chemistry…

Advanced Encryption Standard is one of the most widely used and important symmetric ciphers for today. It well known, that it can be subjected to the quantum Grover's attack that twice reduces its key strength. But full AES attack requires…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Alexey Moiseevskiy

Quantum circuit optimization is a central task in Quantum Computing, as current Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum devices suffer from error propagation that often scales with the number of operations. Among quantum operations, the CNOT gate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jacopo Cossio , Daniele Lizzio Bosco , Riccardo Romanello , Giuseppe Serra , Carla Piazza

Due to Grover's algorithm, any exhaustive search attack of block ciphers can achieve a quadratic speed-up. To implement Grover,s exhaustive search and accurately estimate the required resources, one needs to implement the target ciphers as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 XiaoYu Jing , YanJu Li , GuangYue Zhao , Huiqin Xie

Quantum computers are expected to bring drastic acceleration to several computing tasks against classical computers. Noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, which have tens to hundreds of noisy physical qubits, are gradually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Yutaro Akahoshi , Kazunori Maruyama , Hirotaka Oshima , Shintaro Sato , Keisuke Fujii

Arithmetic operations are an important component of many quantum algorithms. As such, coming up with optimized quantum circuits for these operations leads to more efficient implementations of the corresponding algorithms. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Priyanka Mukhopadhyay , Alexandru Gheorghiu , Hari Krovi

We present new connections between quantum information and the field of classical cryptography. In particular, we provide examples where Simon's algorithm can be used to show insecurity of commonly used cryptographic symmetric-key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Thomas Santoli , Christian Schaffner

This work presents the first thorough exploration of the attacks on the interface between gate-level and pulse-level quantum circuits and pulse-level quantum circuits themselves. Typically, quantum circuits and programs that execute on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Chuanqi Xu , Jakub Szefer

Quantum cryptanalysis is essential for evaluating the security of cryptographic systems against the threat of quantum computing. Recently, Shi {\it et al.} introduced a dedicated quantum attack on block cipher constructions based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Xiao-Fan Zhen , Zhen-Qiang Li , Jia-Cheng Fan , Su-Juan Qin , Fei Gao

Due to the powerful computing capability of quantum computers, cryptographic researchers have applied quantum algorithms to cryptanalysis and obtained many interesting results in recent years. In this paper, we study related-key attack in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-13 Huiqin Xie , Li Yang

Clifford circuit optimization is an important step in the quantum compilation pipeline. Major compilers employ heuristic approaches. While they are fast, their results are often suboptimal. Minimization of noisy gates, like 2-qubit CNOT…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Irfansha Shaik , Jaco van de Pol

Recent results of Kaplan et al., building on previous work by Kuwakado and Morii, have shown that a wide variety of classically-secure symmetric-key cryptosystems can be completely broken by quantum chosen-plaintext attacks (qCPA). In such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Gorjan Alagic , Alexander Russell

Quantum squaring operation is a useful building block in implementing quantum algorithms such as linear regression, regularized least squares algorithm, order-finding algorithm, quantum search algorithm, Newton Raphson division, Euclidean…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Afrin Sultana , Edgard Muñoz-Coreas

Quantum data locking is a quantum communication primitive that allows the use of a short secret key to encrypt a much longer message. It guarantees information-theoretical security against an adversary with limited quantum memory. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Zixin Huang , Pieter Kok , Cosmo Lupo

Here we introduce an improved approach to Variational Quantum Attack Algorithms (VQAA) on crytographic protocols. Our methods provide robust quantum attacks to well-known cryptographic algorithms, more efficiently and with remarkably fewer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Borja Aizpurua , Pablo Bermejo , Josu Etxezarreta Martinez , Roman Orus

The development of automated gate specification for quantum communications and quantum networked computation opens up the way for malware designed at corrupting the automation software, changing the automated quantum communications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Carlos Pedro Gonçalves

We present strong attacks against quantum key distribution schemes which use quantum memories and quantum gates to attack directly the final key. We analyze a specific attack of this type, for which we find the density matrices available to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 E. Biham , T. Mor