Quantum Computing in Cybersecurity

22Quantum Computing in Data Security: A Critical Assessment

Sadullah Khan¹*, Chintan Jain¹, Sudhir Rathi², Prakash Kumar Maravi³, Arun Jhapate⁴ and Divyani Joshi⁵

¹Department of Computer Science Engineering, Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, India

²Faculty of CSE, Poornima University, Jaipur, India

³Computer Science and Engineering Department, Samrat Ashok Technological Institute Polytechnic College, Vidisha, India

⁴Computer Science and Engineering Department Sagar Institute of Research and Technology, Bhopal, India

⁵Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IPS Academy, Indore, India

Abstract

In many fields, such as data search from large data repositories, prime factorization, number theory, cybersecurity, polynomial evaluation, interpolation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, highly intensive computing tasks are required. Quantum computing is an emerging technology that can perform these tasks. Any computational issue that can be resolved by a classical computer can also be resolved more effectively by a quantum computer. Out of all of these problem areas, network security is one where quantum computing is most directly related, with key management and distribution being its two main applications that are used in a variety of ways. The principles of quantum computing, as well as several key distribution strategies based on quantum computing, are briefly explained in this study. Moreover, this article focuses on computational engineering ...