This survey provides a comprehensive review of the security challenges, threats, and mitigation strategies associated with the rapid advancement of quantum computing.

This paper surveys the security vulnerabilities of Variational Quantum Circuits (VQCs) to backdoor attacks, detailing various attack mechanisms and analyzing current detection and defense strategies.

The paper introduces covert quantum computing, a framework to ensure privacy in multi-tenant quantum cloud environments, and finds that while local crosstalk is limited, long-range coupling effects cr…

This paper provides a comprehensive, system-level taxonomy for designing quantum-resistant network architectures, moving beyond simple protocol substitutions to address key distribution and management…

The paper proposes a practical, non-interactive scheme for publicly verifying quantum computations delegated from a classical user to a quantum prover, by relaxing the requirement to time-delayed veri…

The paper estimates the quantum resources required to break 256-bit ECC cryptography and warns that fast-clock quantum computers could enable on-spend attacks on modern cryptocurrencies, necessitating…

The paper presents Broken Quantum, a comprehensive formal security audit that identifies 547 security vulnerabilities across 45 open-source quantum computing simulators, revealing critical flaws in me…

The paper classifies the subsets of an encrypted-clone storage register, demonstrating that intermediate non-authorized subsets can leak information about the original qubit state through a parity-dep…

The paper argues that current lattice-based post-quantum cryptography, which relies on injecting noise, is not unconditionally secure because advanced quantum error correction and learning techniques…

The paper proposes a quantum-resistant quantum teleportation (QRQT) framework using post-quantum cryptography to secure the classical channel, establishing maximum secure communication distances and a…

This survey provides a detailed overview of quantum adversarial machine learning, examining existing attacks, novel quantum-enhanced defense strategies, and the theoretical challenges in securing quan…

The paper introduces a unified framework for Quantum Fully Homomorphic Encryption (QFHE) that achieves exponential efficiency improvements by integrating a novel modular arithmetic program (MAP) tailo…

The paper introduces a novel threat model, approximate obfuscation, and proposes a framework to detect IP piracy in approximate circuits by comparing their statistical error profiles.

The paper proposes a layered, modular network architecture combining Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) to achieve scalable, end-to-end post-quantum security in multi-h…

This paper develops and analyzes two differentially private methods for answering counting queries on quantum-encoded datasets, demonstrating improved privacy guarantees and a quantum-safe approach fo…

The paper introduces stronger cryptographic notions, quantum localization and trajectory verification, to robustly certify a quantum entity's position and movement through spacetime.

The paper analyzes the security of a partially masked hardware accelerator for Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) in PQC, demonstrating that the claimed security margins are significantly overestimated…

The paper reviews adversarial machine learning vulnerabilities and proposes conceptual frameworks for enhancing AI robustness by integrating quantum computing techniques.

The paper reviews the vulnerability of AI to adversarial attacks and proposes conceptual frameworks for enhancing AI robustness by integrating quantum computing techniques.

Quantum Gatekeeper is a robust, multi-factor context-bound image steganography framework that embeds payloads using LSB and derives a gate key from a Variational Quantum Circuit (VQC), ensuring recove…