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The impending arrival of cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs) threatens the security foundations of modern software: Shor's algorithm breaks RSA, ECDSA, ECDH, and Diffie-Hellman, while Grover's algorithm reduces the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Animesh Shaw

The steady advancement in quantum computer error correction technology has pushed the current record to 48 stable logical qubits, bringing us closer to machines capable of running Shor's algorithm at scales that threaten RSA and ECC…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Nicolas Rodriguez-Alvarez , Fernando Rodriguez-Merino

In order to prevent eavesdropping and tampering, the network security protocols use a handshake with an asymmetric cipher to establish a session-specific shared key with which further communication is encrypted using a symmetric cipher. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Wenhua Gao , Li Yang , DaoDe Zhang , Xia Liu

QSE is emerging as a critical discipline to make quantum computing accessible to a broader developer community; however, most quantum development environments still require developers to engage with low-level details across the software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Boshuai Ye , Arif Ali Khan , Teemu Pihkakoski , Peng Liang , Muhammad Azeem Akbar , Matti Silveri , Lauri Malmi

In modern cryptography, block encryption is a fundamental cryptographic primitive. However, it is impossible for block encryption to achieve the same security as one-time pad. Quantum mechanics has changed the modern cryptography, and lots…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Min Liang , Li Yang

The rise of large-scale quantum computing poses a significant threat to traditional cryptographic security measures. Quantum attacks undermine current asymmetric cryptographic algorithms, rendering them ineffective. Even symmetric key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yaser Baseri , Vikas Chouhan , Ali Ghorbani , Aaron Chow

The emergence of Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computers (CRQCs) presents a critical threat to classical cryptographic systems, particularly widely adopted protocols such as RSA, Diffie-Hellman (DH), and Elliptic Curve Cryptography…

A quantum computer (QC) can solve many computational problems more efficiently than a classic one. The field of QCs is growing: companies (such as DWave, IBM, Google, and Microsoft) are building QC offerings. We position that software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Andriy Miranskyy , Lei Zhang

Quantum computing has existed in the theoretical realm for several decades. Recently, quantum computing has re-emerged as a promising technology to solve problems that a classical computer could take hundreds of years to solve. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Neilson Carlos Leite Ramalho , Higor Amario de Souza , Marcos Lordello Chaim

Quantum computing is an emerging paradigm with the potential to transform numerous application areas by addressing problems considered intractable in the classical domain. However, its integration into cyberspace introduces significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Suryansh Upadhyay , Koustubh Phalak , Jungeun Lee , Kathleen Mitchell Hill , Swaroop Ghosh

Quantum computing is a significant risk to classical cryptographic, especially RSA, which depends on the difficulty of factoring large numbers. Classical factorization methods, such as Trial Division and Pollard's Rho, are inefficient for…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Md. Ismiel Hossen Abir

Quantum computing poses a significant global threat to today's security mechanisms. As a result, security experts and public sectors have issued guidelines to help organizations migrate their software to post-quantum cryptography (PQC).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Norrathep Rattanavipanon , Jakapan Suaboot , Warodom Werapun

As our lives, our businesses, and indeed our world economy become increasingly reliant on the secure operation of many interconnected software systems, the software engineering research community is faced with unprecedented research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Marcel Böhme , Eric Bodden , Tevfik Bultan , Cristian Cadar , Yang Liu , Giuseppe Scanniello

Despite the increasing interest in quantum computing, the aspect of development to achieve cost-effective and reliable quantum software applications has been slow. One barrier is the software engineering of quantum programs, which can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Majid Haghparast , Tommi Mikkonen , Jukka K. Nurminen , Vlad Stirbu

Quantum software systems are emerging software engineering (SE) genre that exploit principles of quantum bits (Qubit) and quantum gates (Qgates) to solve complex computing problems that today classic computers can not effectively do in a…

Quantum computing is no longer only a scientific interest but is rapidly becoming an industrially available technology that can potentially overcome the limits of classical computation. Over the last years, all major companies have provided…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Manuel De Stefano , Fabiano Pecorelli , Dario Di Nucci , Fabio Palomba , Andrea De Lucia

The convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and quantum computing is redefining the security paradigm of interconnected digital systems. Classical cryptographic algorithms such as RSA, Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), and Advanced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jaydip Sen

Quantum computers create new security risks for today's encryption systems. This paper presents an improved version of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) that uses quantum technology to strengthen protection. Our approach offers two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Albert Nieto-Morales , Arit Kumar Bishwas , Joel Jacob Varghese

The development of large quantum computers will have dire consequences for cryptography. Most of the symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic algorithms are vulnerable to quantum algorithms. Grover's search algorithm gives a square root time…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Ritik Bavdekar , Eashan Jayant Chopde , Ashutosh Bhatia , Kamlesh Tiwari , Sandeep Joshua Daniel , Atul

The advent of quantum computing threatens classical cryptographic mechanisms, demanding new strategies for securing communication networks. Since real-world networks cannot be fully Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)-enabled due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ane Sanz , Eire Salegi , Asier Atutxa , David Franco , Jasone Astorga , Eduardo Jacob