Quantum-Safe Industrial IoT: This Decade's Top Priority

" Quantum computing has the potential to break the encryption on which most enterprises, digital infrastructures, and economies rely "

-- World Economic Forum Centre for Cybersecurity

Quantum Computers Advancement

Microsoft today introduced Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture that it expects will realize quantum computers capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades.

Willow performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 1025 or 10 septillion years.

The Quantum Threat to SCADA Systems: A Deep Dive into Security, Vulnerability, and Future Solutions

AGA-12 Security Standards at Risk from Quantum Computers: Immediate Transition from Classical to Post-Quantum Cryptography Needed for IIoT Protection

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Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC)

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)

PQC in IIoT

QKD in IIoT

Hybridization of PQC & QKD

Our Research Towards Quantum Safe Future

To secure IIoT systems in the quantum age, our research focuses on the following objectives:

1) Classical and Quantum Attacks: The primary goal of this research is to develop a cryptographic system that is robust against both classical and quantum attacks, ensuring comprehensive security in the face of evolving threats.

2) Optimized and Lightweight Quantum-Resistant Solutions: Considering the resource constraints of many IIoT devices, this research emphasizes the design of lightweight and efficient quantum-resistant cryptographic approaches, tailored to meet the specific needs of such systems.

3) Long-Term Security: With industrial systems averaging a 19-year lifespan, upgrading legacy systems is challenging. This research aims to develop encryption and authentication solutions that ensure long-term efficiency and forward secrecy for sustainable security

4) Ensuring Trustworthiness: In IIoT systems, trustworthiness relies on security, safety, privacy, resilience, and reliability. This research upholds trustworthiness by ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and authentication using advanced quantum-resistant cryptographic methods.

5) Efficient Security Solutions: From a business standpoint, the proposed cryptographic system focuses on balancing cost and performance, evaluated through key performance indicators, to deliver a practical and efficient solution.

Publication

R. Borhan, M. D. Hossain, Y. Taenaka and Y. Kadobayashi, "IOSHA - An Enhanced Hash Function for Secure and Efficient Key Generation in CRYSTALS-Dilithium for IoT," 2024 International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing (QCNC), Kanazawa, Japan, 2024, pp. 244-252, doi: 10.1109/QCNC62729.2024.00046.

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