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Quantum Computing : Security Implications

Robert M. Slade , MSc, CISSP rmslade@shaw.ca, rslade@vcn.bc.ca, rslade@computercrime.org http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm. Quantum Computing : Security Implications. This isn't right. It isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli, on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague.

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Quantum Computing : Security Implications

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  1. Robert M. Slade, MSc, CISSP rmslade@shaw.ca, rslade@vcn.bc.ca, rslade@computercrime.org http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm Quantum Computing: Security Implications

  2. This isn't right. It isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli, on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague Do we understand quantum computing?

  3. Quantum introduction (very small) • Concepts • Superposition • Entanglement • observer effect • Qubit • “If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.” • Niels Bohr

  4. Quantum Computing (1) • Quantum computer • quantum tech, traditional operation • smaller, faster • quantum size range • Turing • universal computer • irreversible computations

  5. Quantum Computing (2) • Quantum cryptography • photon polarization • angular polarization • detector angle • public exchange of angle but not value • photon entanglement • eavesdropping detection

  6. Quantum Computing (3) • Quantum computing • computing device or processor • analogue computer • not digital?

  7. Analogue Computers • Spaghetti computing • parallel sorting • special purpose/application • Slide rule • exact computation • imprecise reading • Adiabatic quantum computer • least energy = best answer • least path, best comparison, simulation • D-Wave Orion

  8. Applications and Implications • by domain • general functions • least path • Traveling Salesman Problem • scheduling, efficiency studies, multiple requirements • NP-complete, non-convergent, Ising model • simulation • climate models • pattern recognition • people are good, computers are bad • data reduction and representation

  9. Security management • risk management (shortest path) • what if - cost vs benefit • information classification (pattern matching) • risk assessment required • investing, or not, in quantum computing

  10. Security architecture • new architectures, new vulnerabilities • simulation of vulnerabilities and protections • quantum devices and noise • D-Wave Orion voting, error checking • quantum error correction (recent) • fault tolerant computing

  11. Access control • biometrics (pattern matching) • information flow and covert channel analysis (least path/simulation) • intrusion detection (pattern matching)

  12. Cryptography • quantum communications/encryption/key negotiation/eavesdropping detection • parallel decryption • new algorithms • tractable by neither classical nor quantum • quantum devices and generation of randomness • analysis of implementation problems (simulation)

  13. Physical • noise, RFI/EMI interference • temperature • room temp 100x > interstellar space • interstellar space 1000x > Orion device • special costs, protections for devices • physical access control (biometrics)

  14. BCP • Business Impact Analysis (least path) • testing of BC plans (simulation) • disaster management • direction of resources to maximum effect • continuity of operations for special devices • damage if power/cooling fails

  15. Applications security • testing (simulation) • database analysis (pattern matching) • cost (privacy) vs benefit (safety) • database aggregation problem analysis (pattern matching and simulation) • learning (pattern matching) • neural net augmented, check against neural net superstitious learning • check against expected • impossible to compute by classical methods • malware/botnet detection, (pattern matching) • operation/control/ownership • completely new paradigms in programming

  16. Operations security • combinations of classical and quantum devices and operations • complexity, troubleshooting • troubleshooting (simulation) • insider attack detection (pattern matching)

  17. Telecommunications and networking • Intrusion Detection Systems • Botnet detection and assessment • Command & Control • ownership • “fast flux” • Network attack analysis • quantum encryption special channels • quantum devices likely remote access

  18. Telecommunications and networking • Spam • limitations even in Bayesian analysis

  19. Telecommunications and networking • quantum encryption requires special channels • quantum devices likely to be remote access

  20. Law and investigation • new forensic analysis tools (pattern matching/simulation) • presentation/acceptance in court problematic

  21. Robert M. Slade, MSc, CISSP rmslade@shaw.ca, rslade@vcn.bc.ca, rslade@computercrime.org http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm Quantum Computing: Security Implications

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