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Typical security proofs for quantum key distribution (QKD) rely on having some model for the devices, with the security guarantees implicitly relying on the values of various parameters of the model, such as dark count rates or detector…

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The fine-tuning technique in deep learning gives rise to an emerging lineage relationship among models. This lineage provides a promising perspective for addressing security concerns such as unauthorized model redistribution and false claim…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zhuoyi Shang , Jiasen Li , Pengzhen Chen , Yanwei Liu , Xiaoyan Gu , Weiping Wang

The rapid advancement of quantum hardware necessitates the development of reliable methods to certify its correct functioning. However, existing certification tests fall short, as they either suffer from systematic errors or do not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Jan Nöller , Nikolai Miklin , Martin Kliesch , Mariami Gachechiladze

Quantum Tanner codes are a recently developed family of quantum error-correcting codes characterized by favorable asymptotic performance characteristics. Despite their theoretical potential, practical decoding algorithms that effectively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhuo-Yan Xiao , Sha Shi , Chen-Peng Huang , Dong-Sheng Wang , Yun-Jiang Wang

Quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol has been proved to provide unconditionally secure key between two remote legitimate users in theory. Key distribution signals are transmitted in a quantum channel which is established by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Yang-Yang Fei , Xiang-Dong Meng , Ming Gao , Hong Wang , Zhi Ma

The security analysis of quantum key distribution is difficult to perform when there is efficiency mismatch between various threshold detectors involved in an experimental setup. Even the verification that the device actually performs in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-01 Yanbao Zhang , Norbert Lutkenhaus

Hardware supply-chain attacks are raising significant security threats to the boot process of multiprocessor systems. This paper identifies a new, prevalent hardware supply-chain attack surface that can bypass multiprocessor secure boot due…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhuoruo Zhang , Rui Chang , Mingshuai Chen , Wenbo Shen , Chenyang Yu , He Huang , Qinming Dai , Yongwang Zhao

Context: Mining software repositories is a popular means to gain insights into a software project's evolution, monitor project health, support decisions and derive best practices. Tools supporting the mining process are commonly applied by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Nicole Hoess , Carlos Paradis , Rick Kazman , Wolfgang Mauerer

Quantum error correction (QEC) is essential for achieving low error rates required for fault-tolerant quantum computation. In stabilizer-based codes such as the surface code, errors are inferred from repeated syndrome measurements and…

We propose a new library to model and verify hardware circuits in the Coq proof assistant. This library allows one to easily build circuits by following the usual pen-and-paper diagrams. We define a deep-embedding: we use a (dependently…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-08-23 Thomas Braibant

Confidential Computing enhances privacy of data in-use through hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) that use attestation to verify their integrity, authenticity, and certain runtime properties, along with those of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Ceren Kocaoğullar , Tina Marjanov , Ivan Petrov , Ben Laurie , Al Cutter , Christoph Kern , Alice Hutchings , Alastair R. Beresford

In fault-tolerant quantum computing, quantum algorithms are implemented through quantum circuits capable of error correction. These circuits are typically constructed based on specific quantum error correction codes, with consideration…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Ying Li

Quantum key distribution (QKD) promises information-theoretic security based on quantum mechanics and idealized device models. Practical implementations, however, deviate from these models due to unavoidable device imperfections, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Álvaro Navarrete , Guillermo Currás-Lorenzo , Margarida Pereira , Marcos Curty

While recent progress in quantum hardware open the door for significant speedup in certain key areas, quantum algorithms are still hard to implement right, and the validation of such quantum programs is a challenge. Early attempts either…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Christophe Chareton , Sébastien Bardin , François Bobot , Valentin Perrelle , Benoit Valiron

Based on a sequential communication game, semi-device independent certification of an unsharp instrument has recently been demonstrated [\href{https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/ab3773}{New J. Phys. 21 083034 (2019),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Sumit Mukherjee , A. K. Pan

The problem of reliably certifying the outcome of a computation performed by a quantum device is rapidly gaining relevance. We present two protocols for a classical verifier to verifiably delegate a quantum computation to two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-13 Andrea Coladangelo , Alex Grilo , Stacey Jeffery , Thomas Vidick

Verifying the security of masked hardware and software implementations, under advanced leakage models, remains a significant challenge, especially then accounting for glitches, transitions and CPU micro-architectural specifics. Existing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Noé Amiot , Quentin L. Meunier , Karine Heydemann , Emmanuelle Encrenaz

We model repetitive quantum error correction (QEC) with the single-error-correcting five-qubit code on a network of individually-controlled qubits with always-on Ising couplings, using our previously designed universal set of quantum gates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Amrit De , Leonid P. Pryadko

We introduce Sequential-EDFL (Empirical Dynamic Formal Lift), which applies anytime-valid sequential testing to language model generation stopping. Our approach tracks information lift, defined as the log-likelihood ratio between the full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Sanjeda Akter , Ibne Farabi Shihab , Anuj Sharma

As quantum computing moves toward fault-tolerant architectures, quantum error correction (QEC) decoder performance is increasingly critical for scalability. Understanding the impact of transitioning from floating-point software to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Francisco Garcia-Herrero , Javier Valls , Llanos Vergara-Picazo , Vicente Torres