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Exploiting quantum mechanisms, quantum attacks have the potential ability to break the cipher structure. Recently, Ito et al. proposed a quantum attack on Feistel-2* structure (Ito et al.'s attack) based onthe Q2 model. However, it is not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Wenjie Liu , Mengting Wang , Zixian Li

Quantum computers, that may become available one day, would impact many scientific fields, most notably cryptography since many asymmetric primitives are insecure against an adversary with quantum capabilities. Cryptographers are already…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Marc Kaplan , Gaëtan Leurent , Anthony Leverrier , María Naya-Plasencia

Quantum search algorithm (also known as Grover's algorithm) lays the foundation for many other quantum algorithms. Although it is very simple, its implementation is limited on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) processors. Grover's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Kun Zhang , Kwangmin Yu , Vladimir Korepin

This review examines how quantum computing and artificial intelligence challenge current cryptographic systems. We analyze the literature to assess the resilience of algorithms against quantum attacks (Shor's and Grover's algorithms) and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Viraaji Mothukuri , Reza M. Parizi

Power side-channel attacks on AES exploit data-dependent physical leakage to recover secret keys, but turning noisy leakage observations into a verified AES-128 key remains a hard combinational search problem. SAT-assisted power…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Walid El Maouaki , Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Shafique

With the extraordinary maturity of data exchange in network environments and increasing the attackers capabilities, information security has become the most important process for data storage and communication. In order to provide such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Omer K. Jasim Mohammad , Safia Abbas , El-Sayed M. El-Horbaty , Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem

Simulating quantum circuits using classical computers can accelerate the development and validation of quantum algorithms. Our newly developed algorithm, variational quantum search (VQS), has shown an exponential advantage over Grover's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Mohammadreza Soltaninia , Junpeng Zhan

Here we introduce the application of Tensor Networks (TN) to launch attacks on symmetric-key cryptography. Our approaches make use of Matrix Product States (MPS) as well as our recently-introduced Flexible-PEPS Quantum Circuit Simulator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Borja Aizpurua , Siddhartha Patra , Josu Etxezarreta Martinez , Roman Orus

Quantum computing has noteworthy speedup over classical computing by taking advantage of quantum parallelism, i.e., the superposition of states. In particular, quantum search is widely used in various computationally hard problems. Grover's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-29 Ji Liu , Huiyang Zhou

It is well known that n bits of entropy are necessary and sufficient to perfectly encrypt n bits (one-time pad). Even if we allow the encryption to be approximate, the amount of entropy needed doesn't asymptotically change. However, this is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Iordanis Kerenidis , Daniel Nagaj

The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is widely used and well-studied for its efficiency and strong security. This paper presents quantum circuit designs for the AES S-box by introducing the composite field \( F((2^4)^2) \) to replace the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Huinan Chen , Binbin Cai , Fei Gao , Song Lin

Grover's search algorithm is one of the first quantum algorithms to exhibit a provable quantum advantage. It forms the backbone of numerous quantum applications and is widely used in benchmarking efforts. Here, we report…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Bibek Pokharel , Daniel Lidar

The implementation and practicality of quantum algorithms highly hinge on the quality of operations within a quantum processor. Therefore, including realistic error models in quantum computing simulation platforms is crucial for testing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-12 Ahmed Abid Moueddene , Nader Khammassi , Koen Bertels , Carmen G. Almudever

The security of classical symmetric-key primitives is fundamentally challenged by the emergence of quantum computing, necessitating a rigorous evaluation of their post-quantum resilience. This paper presents a comprehensive quantum circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Ibrahim Ulgen , Hasan Ozgur Cildiroglu , Oğuz Yayla

Despite the advent of Grover's algorithm for the unstructured search, its successful implementation on near-term quantum devices is still limited. We apply three strategies to reduce the errors associated with implementing quantum search…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Kun Zhang , Pooja Rao , Kwangmin Yu , Hyunkyung Lim , Vladimir Korepin

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) implementations on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) commonly focus on maximizing throughput at the cost of utilizing high volumes of FPGA slice logic. High resource usage limits systems' abilities to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jacob T. Grycel , Robert J. Walls

In order to understand the bounds of utilization of the Grover's search algorithm for the large unstructured data in presence of the quantum computer noise, we undertake a series of simulations by inflicting various types of noise, modelled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Yulun Wang , Predrag S. Krstic

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

In symmetric cryptanalysis, the model of superposition queries has led to surprising results, with many constructions being broken in polynomial time thanks to Simon's period-finding algorithm. But the practical implications of these…

In this work we review the security vulnerability of Quantum Cryptography with respect to "man-in-the-middle attacks" and the standard authentication methods applied to counteract these attacks. We further propose a modified authentication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Peev , M. Nölle , O. Maurhardt , T. Lorünser , M. Suda , A. Poppe , R. Ursin , A. Fedrizzi , A. Zeilinger