Recent Progress in Quantum Computing Relevant to Internet Security

Paper 2024/410

Recent Progress in Quantum Computing Relevant to Internet Security

Hilarie Orman

, Purple Streak

Abstract

Quantum computers at some future date might be able to factor large numbers, and this poses a threat to some public key and key exchange systems in use today. This overview of recent progress in devising quantum algorithms and building quantum computing devices is meant to help technologists understand the difficult problems that quantum engineers are working on, where advances have been made, and how those things affect estimates of if and when large scale quantum computation might happen.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Attacks and cryptanalysis
Publication info: Preprint.
Keywords: quantum factoring lattices QEC qubit transmon photon spin coherence
Contact author(s): ho @ alum mit edu
History: 2024-03-08: approved; 2024-03-07: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2024/410
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2024/410,
      author = {Hilarie Orman},
      title = {Recent Progress in Quantum Computing Relevant to Internet Security},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2024/410},
      year = {2024},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/410}
}