Confidential Computing in the Post-Quantum Era
Steven C. Puckett, John D. Crabtree · 2023
The recent advances in Quantum Computing has many industries now wondering about the long-term security of their data, networks, and data centers. Couple this with the new data privacy regulations that carry hefty fines for data breaches, and the new focused attacks by hackers on data-in-use, and you can understand their concern. Confidential Computing is focused on protecting data while in use, but many architectures are not currently considering the Post-Quantum Era in their designs. This paper describes Confidential Computing, the Post-Quantum Quandary, and provides an overview of some of the existing technologies and algorithms to create a Quantum-Safe Confidential Computing architecture.