Quantum Computer Fault Injection Attacks
Abstract
The rapid growth of interest in quantum computing has brought about the need to secure these emerging computers against a range of security attacks. Among the potential security threats are physical attacks, including those orchestrated by malicious insiders within data centers where the quantum computers are located, which could compromise the integrity of computations and resulting data. To help in the understanding of emerging fault injection attacks on quantum computers, this paper presents an in-depth exploration of quantum computer fault injection attacks. This work introduces a classification of fault injection attacks and strategies, including an analysis of the domain of fault injection attacks, the fault targets, and the fault manifestations in quantum computers. The resulting classification highlights the landscape of the potential threats, and presents a road map for researchers and industry for developing security protection mechanisms against fault injection attacks for the emerging quantum computing systems.
Type
Publication
2024 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)
Computational Modeling
Computers
Data Centers
Fault-Injection
Industries
Protection
Quantum Computing
Roads
Security
Authors
Chuanqi Xu
(he/him)
Research Scientist
I am a Research Scientist at Meta working on Meta’s Generative Ads Recommendation Model (GEM). My focus is on designing and implementing novel transfer learning paradigms to amplify the impact of foundation models within production environments. Additionally, I am working on optimizing the efficiency and performance of GEM’s ecosystem.
Previously, I earned my PhD at Yale University. My research there sat at the intersection of quantum computing and security, where I designed novel attacks and defenses for quantum computers. Before this, I completed my undergraduate studies at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), where I studied and researched on theoretical and computational condensed matter physics.
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