Quantum-Safe Security

• CSA Announcements
• Upcoming events: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/events
• Recent releases: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/artifacts/ 
• Open peer reviews and surveys:  https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/#_initiative

• NEW Meeting Time - 9:30am PT- reach out [email protected] if you don't have the updated QSS meeting series

• Update on current activities
• Quantum Physics 101 discussion - may remove,
• Short articles
• new position paper from the 4-agencies - will remove if no interest
• Apple Using PQ3 for iMessage - writing continues
• Collaboration with Cloud Key Management Group - introductions to interested parties to understand overlap points and where we can be involved
• Crypto Newsletter - ongoing!
• Update on current documents
• Security controls / Quantum Risk Matrix - Looking for help with reviewing and revising the current version. 1 last internal review needed.
• AI and Quantum article - beginning to write, currently pulling articles
• Paused:
• QSS/Blockchain - restarting effort
• QKD & PQC  - paused, no action items assigned
• News from Quantum-Safe space
• Article retracted after claiming to break lattice-based - written by credible source so it's worth to pay attention too - https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/555, http://www.chenyilei.net/
• Breakthrough in Quantum Cloud Computing Ensures its Security and Privacy
• https://www.techrepublic.com/article/quantum-cloud-computing-security-privacy/
• "Oxford University researchers used an approach dubbed "blind quantum computing" to connect two quantum computing entities in a way that is completely secure."
• How? They are stating that with "blind quantum computing" the user will remotely control the quantum processor of the server rather than relying on the cloud provider.
• A client computer would need to be able to detect photons which would be connected to a quantum computing server with a fibre network and received by the client.
• It is stated that tampering would not impact the security of the data, however, it could corrupt the result and client would not know about it.
• Research was funded by the UK Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub (collaboration of 17 universities) which is one of four quantum tech hubs in the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme.

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Hillary Baron
Sr Technical Director
CSA
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