Project Details
Projekt
Attestation for verification and validation in the quantum computing stack
Applicants
Professorin Dr. Jasmin Meinecke; Professor Dr. Jean-Pierre Seifert; Professor Dr. Janik Wolters
Subject Area
Security and Dependability, Operating-, Communication- and Distributed Systems
Hardware Systems and Architectures for Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Engineering Systems
Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas
Hardware Systems and Architectures for Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Engineering Systems
Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas
Term
since 2025
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 563423354
It should come as no surprise that even cloud-based quantum computing software stacks are susceptible to many known (and also new) security threats.Thus, this project will explore to secure cloud-based quantum computing software stacks right from the beginning of the QC area. Towards mitigating the arising QC cloud threats, we will use mechanisms from the classical security field. We leverage, in a methodical and rigorous way, known security measures from the classical trusted computing area and combine them with well-studied quantum protocols. In particular the security measures are: Attestation (for memory authentication) and Physically Unclonable Functions (for platform authentication). In addition to the above theoretical investigations of the quantum-secured paradigms, i.e., quantum attestations and quantum PUFs, we will also develop a proof of concept along an existing photonic QC platform at our disposal at the premises of the respective project partners. In this part we will heavily make use of photonic quantum states, i.e., so called qumodes, which poses its own challenge and will address important open questions, among others, regarding protocol requirements. Importantly, these investigations allow us to define higher-level interfaces and specifications for quantum attestation and quantum platform authentication in a hardware-agnostic manner, thereby easing the integration of such primitives in existing quantum cloud computing stacks.
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