Towards security recommendations for public-key infrastructures for production environments in the post-quantum era

Autor: N.O. Pozhar, Evgeniy O. Kiktenko, Ekaterina Kolycheva, Mikhail A. Kudinov, Aleksey Fedorov, Alexander Borisov, Denis Nabokov, Anton Guglya, Sergey E. Yunakovsky, Maxim Kot
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
FOS: Computer and information sciences
Computer Science - Cryptography and Security
Computer science
FOS: Physical sciences
Cryptography
02 engineering and technology
Computer security
computer.software_genre
Public-key cryptography
Computer Science - Computers and Society
020204 information systems
Computers and Society (cs.CY)
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
Production (economics)
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Quantum computer
Quantum Physics
Focus (computing)
Post-quantum cryptography
business.industry
Public key infrastructure
Condensed Matter Physics
Viewpoints
Atomic and Molecular Physics
and Optics
Control and Systems Engineering
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
business
Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
computer
Zdroj: EPJ Quantum Technology. 8
ISSN: 2196-0763
2662-4400
Popis: Quantum computing technologies pose a significant threat to the currently employed public-key cryptography protocols. In this paper, we discuss the impact of the quantum threat on public key infrastructures (PKIs), which are used as a part of security systems for protecting production environments. We analyze security issues of existing models with a focus on requirements for a fast transition to post-quantum solutions. Although our primary focus is on the attacks with quantum computing, we also discuss some security issues that are not directly related to the used cryptographic algorithms but are essential for the overall security of the PKI. We attempt to provide a set of security recommendations regarding the PKI from the viewpoints of attacks with quantum computers.
Comment: 24 pages, 1 figure
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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