PQ-REACT: Post Quantum Cryptography Framework for Energy Aware Contexts
Marta Irene García Cid, Michail‐Alexandros Kourtis, David Domingo, Nikolay Tcholtchev, Evangelos Markakis, Marcin Niemiec, Javier Faba, Laura Ortíz, Vicente Martín, Diego R. Lopez, George K. Xilouris, Maria Gagliardi, José González, Miguel García, Giovanni Comandé, Nikolai Stoianov · 2024
Public key cryptography is nowadays a crucial component of global communications which are critical to our economy, security and way of life. The quantum computers are expected to be a threat and the widely used RSA, ECDSA, ECDH, and DSA cryptosystems will need to be replaced by quantum safe cryptography. The main objective of the HORIZON Europe PQ-REACT project is to design, develop and validate a framework for a faster and smoother transition from classical to quantum safe cryptography for a wide variety of contexts and usage domains that could have a potential interest for defence purposes. This framework will include Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) migration paths and cryptographic agility methods and will develop a portfolio of tools for validation of post quantum cryptographic systems using Quantum Computing. A variety of real-world pilots using PQC and Quantum Cryptography, i.e., Smart Grids, 5G and Ledgers will be deployed to validate the defined framework.