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Should quantum computers become available, they will reduce the effective key length of basic secret-key primitives, such as blockciphers. To address this we will either need to use blockciphers which inherently have longer keys or use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Joseph Jaeger , Fang Song , Stefano Tessaro

Quantum computing (QC) holds the promise of revolutionizing problem-solving by exploiting quantum phenomena like superposition and entanglement. It offers exponential speed-ups across various domains, from machine learning and security to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Suryansh Upadhyay , Rupshali Roy , Swaroop Ghosh

Quantum key distribution (QKD) networks are expected to enable information-theoretical secure (ITS) communication over a large-scale network. Most researches on relay-based QKD network assume that all relays or nodes are completely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Yi Luo , Qiong Li , Hao-Kun Mao

Encrypted control has been extensively studied to ensure the confidentiality of system states and control inputs for networked control systems. This paper presents a computationally efficient encrypted control framework for networked…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Zihao Ren , Daniel Quevedo , Salah Sukkarieh , Guodong Shi

We present an efficient tensor-network-based approach for simulating large-scale quantum circuits, demonstrated using Quantum Support Vector Machines (QSVMs). Our method effectively reduces exponential runtime growth to near-quadratic…

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

Variational Quantum Computing (VQC) faces fundamental scalability barriers, primarily due to barren plateaus and sensitivity to quantum noise. To address these challenges, we introduce TensorHyper-VQC, a novel tensor-train (TT)-guided…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Jun Qi , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Pin-Yu Chen , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Collaborative threat intelligence via federated learning (FL) faces critical risks from quantum computing, which can compromise classical encryption methods. This study proposes a quantum-secure FL framework using post-quantum cryptography…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Prabhudarshi Nayak , Gogulakrishnan Thiyagarajan , Ritunsa Mishra , Vinay Bist

With the advancement of quantum computing, symmetric cryptography faces new challenges from quantum attacks. These attacks are typically classified into two models: Q1 (classical queries) and Q2 (quantum superposition queries). In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Yan-Ying Zhu , Bin-Bin Cai , Fei Gao , Song Lin

Quantum secret sharing (QSS) and quantum conference key agreement (QCKA) provide efficient encryption approaches for realizing multi-party secure communication, which are essential components of future quantum networks. We present three…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-14 Shuaishuai Liu , Zhengguo Lu , Pu Wang , Yan Tian , Qing Lu , Xuyang Wang , Yongmin Li

Quantum Key Recycling (QKR) is a quantum-cryptographic primitive that allows one to re-use keys in an unconditionally secure way. By removing the need to repeatedly generate new keys it improves communication efficiency. Skoric and de Vries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Daan Leermakers , Boris Skoric

In recent years, the advancement of quantum computing technology has posed potential security threats to RSA cryptography and elliptic curve cryptography. In response, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Abel C. H. Chen

Once developed for quantum theory, tensor networks have been established as a successful machine learning paradigm. Now, they have been ported back to the quantum realm in the emerging field of quantum machine learning to assess problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Hans-Martin Rieser , Frank Köster , Arne Peter Raulf

Correlator product states (CPS) are a powerful and very broad class of states for quantum lattice systems whose amplitudes can be sampled exactly and efficiently. They work by gluing together states of overlapping clusters of sites on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-16 Stephen R. Clark

A quantum processing unit (QPU) must contain a large number of high quality qubits to produce accurate results for problems at useful scales. In contrast, most scientific and industry classical computation workloads happen in parallel on…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Wei Tang , Margaret Martonosi

Cryptography underpins the security of modern digital infrastructure, from cloud services to health data. However, many widely deployed systems will become vulnerable after the advent of scalable quantum computing. Although quantum-safe…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Homer A. Riva-Cambrin , Rahul Singh , Sanju Lama , Garnette R. Sutherland

Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is moving from evaluation to deployment as NIST finalizes standards for ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA. This survey maps the space from foundations to practice. We first develop a taxonomy across lattice-,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Gaurab Chhetri , Shriyank Somvanshi , Pavan Hebli , Shamyo Brotee , Subasish Das

Until fault-tolerance becomes implementable at scale, quantum computing will heavily rely on noise mitigation techniques. While methods such as zero noise extrapolation with probabilistic error amplification (ZNE-PEA) and probabilistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Sergei Filippov , Matea Leahy , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Guillermo García-Pérez

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is an innovative quantum communications protocol which exploits the laws of quantum mechanics to generate unconditionally secure cryptographic keying material between two geographically separated parties. The…

As security demands increase, the importance of secure computation technologies grows, yet these technologies can often seem overwhelming to practitioners. Furthermore, many approaches focus only on a single technology, potentially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Marcus Taubert , Adam Skuta , Thomas Loruenser