A Survey and Tutorial on Security and Resilience of Quantum Computing
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06081v1
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 23:22:41 GMT
- Title: A Survey and Tutorial on Security and Resilience of Quantum Computing
- Abstract summary: Present-day quantum computers suffer from various noises or errors such as gate error, relaxation, dephasing, readout error, and crosstalk.
quantum programs running these computers face resilience issues and low output fidelities.
The noise in the cloud-based access of quantum computers also introduces new modes of security and privacy issues.
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- Abstract: Present-day quantum computers suffer from various noises or errors such as
gate error, relaxation, dephasing, readout error, and crosstalk. Besides, they
offer a limited number of qubits with restrictive connectivity. Therefore,
quantum programs running these computers face resilience issues and low output
fidelities. The noise in the cloud-based access of quantum computers also
introduces new modes of security and privacy issues. Furthermore, quantum
computers face several threat models from insider and outsider adversaries
including input tampering, program misallocation, fault injection, Reverse
Engineering (RE), and Cloning. This paper provides an overview of various
assets embedded in quantum computers and programs, vulnerabilities and attack
models, and the relation between resilience and security. We also cover
countermeasures against the reliability and security issues and present a
future outlook for the security of quantum computing.
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