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Crypto-wallets or digital asset wallets are a crucial aspect of managing cryptocurrencies and other digital assets such as NFTs. However, these wallets are not immune to security threats, particularly from the growing risk of quantum…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Yathin Kethepalli , Rony Joseph , Sai Raja Vajrala , Jashwanth Vemula , Nenavath Srinivas Naik

The implications of sufficiently large quantum computers for widely used public-key cryptography is well-documented and increasingly discussed by the security community. An April 2016 report by the National Institute of Standards and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-17 David Ott , Christopher Peikert , other workshop participants

Shor's algorithm efficiently solves factoring and discrete logarithm problems using quantum computers, compromising all public key schemes used today. These schemes rely on assumptions on their computational complexity, which quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Jaime S. Buruaga , Ruben B. Méndez , Juan P. Brito , Vicente Martin

Quantum algorithms can break factoring and discrete logarithm based cryptography and weaken symmetric cryptography and hash functions. In order to estimate the real-world impact of these attacks, apart from tracking the development of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-11 Vlad Gheorghiu , Michele Mosca

Large-scale quantum computers threaten the public-key cryptographic foundations underpinning today's network security infrastructures. While significant progress has been made in standardizing post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) primitives and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Elisa Bertino , Ramana Kompella , Ashish Kundu , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Jaideep Vaidya , Attila A. Yavuz

The rapid development of quantum computers threatens traditional cryptographic schemes, prompting the need for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). Although the NIST standardization process has accelerated the development of such algorithms,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Mauro Conti , Francesco Marchiori , Sebastiano Matarazzo , Marco Rubin

The financial sector faces escalating cyber threats amplified by artificial intelligence (AI) and the advent of quantum computing. AI is being weaponized for sophisticated attacks like deepfakes and AI-driven malware, while quantum…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ahmed M. Elmisery , Mirela Sertovic , Andrew Zayin , Paul Watson

Nowadays, predominant asymmetric cryptographic schemes are considered to be secure because discrete logarithms are believed to be hard to be computed. The algorithm of Shor can effectively compute discrete logarithms, i.e. it can brake such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Johanna Barzen , Frank Leymann

Quantum computing is transforming the world profoundly, affecting businesses, organisations, technologies, and human beings' information systems, and will have a profound impact on accounting and finance, particularly in the realm of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Huma Habib Shadan , Sardar Islam

As quantum computing advances toward practical deployment, it threatens a wide range of classical cryptographic mechanisms, including digital signatures, key exchange protocols, public-key encryption, and certain hash-based constructions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tushin Mallick , Maya Zeldin , Murat Cenk , Cristina Nita-Rotaru

Quantum computing poses fundamental risks to classical blockchain systems by undermining widely used cryptographic primitives. In response, two major research directions have emerged: post-quantum blockchains, which integrate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Saurav Ghosh , Niloy Deb Roy Mishu

The promise of quantum computing is not speeding up conventional computing rather delivering an exponential advantage for certain classes of problems, with profound implications for cybersecurity for instance. With the advent and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Md Jobair Hossain Faruk , Sharaban Tahora , Masrura Tasnim , Hossain Shahriar , Nazmus Sakib

Quantum computing is becoming strategically relevant to finance because several core financial bottlenecks are already defined by combinatorial search, expectation estimation, rare-event analysis, representation learning, and long-horizon…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-10 Hui Gong , Akash Sedai , Thomas Schroeder , Francesca Medda

We review new frontiers in information security technologies in communications and distributed storage technologies with the use of classical, quantum, hybrid classical-quantum, and post-quantum cryptography. We analyze the current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 I. S. Kabanov , R. R. Yunusov , Y. V. Kurochkin , A. K. Fedorov

Quantum computing is the process of performing calculations using quantum mechanics. This field studies the quantum behavior of certain subatomic particles for subsequent use in performing calculations, as well as for large-scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-07 David Peral García , Juan Cruz-Benito , Francisco José García-Peñalvo

Classification techniques can be used to analyze system behaviors, network protocols, and cryptographic primitives based on identifiable traits. While useful for defense, such classification can also be leveraged by attackers to infer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tushin Mallick , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Ashish Kundu , Ramana Kompella

Quantum computing technologies pose a significant threat to the currently employed public-key cryptography protocols. In this paper, we discuss the impact of the quantum threat on public key infrastructures (PKIs), which are used as a part…

Post-quantum cryptography is essential for securing digital communications against threats posed by quantum computers. Re-searchers have focused on developing algorithms that can withstand attacks from both classical and quantum computers,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Juan Pedro Hecht , Hugo Daniel Scolnik

With the development of quantum computers, traditional cryptographic systems are facing more and more serious security threats. Fortunately, quantum key distribution (QKD) and post-quantum cryptography (PQC) are two cryptographic mechanisms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 Liu-Jun Wang , You-Yang Zhou , Jian-Ming Yin , Qing Chen

The advent of large-scale quantum computers poses a significant threat to contemporary network security protocols, including Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)-Enterprise authentication. To mitigate this threat, the adoption of Post-Quantum…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Lukas Köder , Nils Lohmiller , Phil Schmieder , Bastian Buck , Michael Menth , Tobias Heer