TY - JOUR
T1 - Attacking the Quantum Internet
AU - Satoh, Takahiko
AU - Nagayama, Shota
AU - Suzuki, Shigeya
AU - Matsuo, Takaaki
AU - Hajdušek, Michal
AU - van Meter, Rodney
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Award FA2386-19-1-4038. This article was presented in part at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium workshop, San Diego, CA, USA [1].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the Author(s).
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The main service provided by the coming quantum Internet will be creating entanglement between any two quantum nodes. We discuss and classify attacks on quantum repeaters, which will serve roles similar to those of classical Internet routers. We have modeled the components for and structure of quantum repeater network nodes. With this model, we point out attack vectors, then analyze attacks in terms of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While we are reassured about the promises of quantum networks from the confidentiality point of view, integrity and availability present new vulnerabilities not present in classical networks and require care to handle properly. We observe that the requirements on the classical computing/networking elements affect the systems' overall security risks. This component-based analysis establishes a framework for further investigation of network-wide vulnerabilities.
AB - The main service provided by the coming quantum Internet will be creating entanglement between any two quantum nodes. We discuss and classify attacks on quantum repeaters, which will serve roles similar to those of classical Internet routers. We have modeled the components for and structure of quantum repeater network nodes. With this model, we point out attack vectors, then analyze attacks in terms of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While we are reassured about the promises of quantum networks from the confidentiality point of view, integrity and availability present new vulnerabilities not present in classical networks and require care to handle properly. We observe that the requirements on the classical computing/networking elements affect the systems' overall security risks. This component-based analysis establishes a framework for further investigation of network-wide vulnerabilities.
KW - Quantum Internet
KW - quantum network security
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U2 - 10.1109/TQE.2021.3094983
DO - 10.1109/TQE.2021.3094983
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85120299037
SN - 2689-1808
VL - 2
JO - IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering
JF - IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering
M1 - 4102617
ER -