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Quantum-oriented Update to Browsers and Infrastructures for the PQ Transition

  • Proyecto

This project will cover various topics related to digital security, with a particular focus on joining forces in the fields of Quantum and Post Quantum (PQ) cryptographic technologies. This proposal has arisen due to the potential vulnerability of the current prevalent cryptographic security model, used for digital data privacy and security purposes, and which is likely to become faulty in the near future due to the threat posed by the development of quantum computing. Quantum computing capabilities and quantum algorithms have been shown to efficiently attack public-key cryptography, weaken symmetric-key cryptography, and reduce the computational cost of breaking several widely used cryptographic primitives that are currently used to protect sensitive information.

As part of QUBIP, the Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) technologies developed at CSIC will be integrated into one of the proposed solutions. This solution will be a collaboration between the PQ classic algorithmic approach and the generation of information-theoretically secure keys (ITS) provided by QKD in the network layer of communication protocols. This unique approach to hybridized key management aims to combine the strengths of both fields to create a Universal Quantum-Secure Key Distribution layer that can secure IPSec (collection of protocols that assist in protecting communications over IP networks) and therefore protect software network environments deployed by telco operators.

CSIC participates in this project through the Group of Cryptography and Information Security (GiCSI) Cibersecurity and Privacy Protection (GiCP) and The Institute of Microelectronics of Seville (IMSE-CSIC), which coordinates the whole CSIC participation. CSIC will work alongside national and international partners to carry out this project, such as Politecnico di Torino, Red Hat, Telefónica, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and Tampere University.

 

Fondazione Links, Politecnico di Torino, Telsy P.A., Security Partner, CSIC, Telefonica I+D, UPM, Tamperen Korkeakoulusaatio SR., RED HAT CZECH, Smart Factory, Fundacion Cibervoluntarios.

Datos del proyecto

QUBIP
Horizon Europe
101119746
Investigador principal
Otros participantes ITEFI
Verónica Fernández Mármol (Investigadora principal ITEFI)
David Arroyo Guardeño
Marc Almeida Ros
Inicio: 01-09-2023 Finalización: 31-05-2026
GiCSI GiCP
Acoustics and Non Destructive Evaluation (DAEND)
  • Environmental Acoustics (GAA)
  • G Carma: Materials Characterization by Non Destructive Evaluation
  • ULAB, Ultrasounds for Liquid Analysis and Bioengineering
Information and Communication Technologies (TIC)
  • Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection Research Group (GiCP)
  • Research group on Cryptology and Information Security (GiCSI)
    • Quantum Communications Laboratory (LCQE)
  • Multichannel Ultrasonic Signal Processing Group (MUSP)
Sensors and Ultrasonic Systems (DSSU)
  • Ultrasonic Systems and Technologies (USTG)
  • Nanosensors and Smart Systems (NoySi)
  • Ultrasonic Resonators for cavitation and micromanipulation (RESULT)
  • Advanced Sensor Technology (SENSAVAN)
  • Quantum Electronics (QE)
Laboratorios
  • Laboratorio de Acústica
  • Laboratorio de Metrología Ultrasónica Médica (LMUM)
  • Laboratorio de Comunicaciones Cuánticas
  • Laboratory for International Collaboration in Advanced Biophotonics Imaging

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