Cyber Crime Attack Vulnerability Review for Quantum Computing
Vaishnavi Gawde, Vanshika Goswami, Balwinder Kaur Dhaliwal, Sunil Parihar, Rupali Chaure, Mandakini Ingle · 2023
The frequency of cyberattacks is rising as internet usage grows more prevalent. As the race for quantum computing (QC) progresses, QC businesses and research organisations may be targeted by nation states, cybercriminals, and hacktivists for financial gain and destruction. This essay examines the state of QC technology and how cybersecurity is connected to QC. We now go into the dangers and recommended practises for preventing the quickly developing cybercrimes. Following that, we put out suggestions on how to proactively lower the cyberattack surface using threat intelligence and by ensuring that quantum software and hardware components are secure by design. Once large-scale and fault-tolerant Qcomp(Qcomp) are built, it is projected that the security of widely used public-key science techniques (such as RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography) would worsen. Due to the fact that these algorithms are at the core of modern society's IT infrastructure, including the financial industry, the potential threat is serious. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been working on a technique of standardising post-quantum cryptography (PQC), which is designed to be safe against Qcomp, even if the danger is unlikely to materialise in the predictable future. NIST has been examining the performance and security of fifteen potential algorithms (seven finalists and eight alternate candidates). Standardization should hasten the transition to PQC globally, not only in the United States. In this chapter, we will discuss current developments in Qcomp analysis and development as well as the security problems associated with public-key scientific algorithms. Then we cover NIST's ongoing PQC standardisation efforts and, therefore, the responses of various organisations in favour of the migration. Finally, we discuss potential difficulties with applying PQC in the actual world.