Paper 2021/1662 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2021/1662 ↗

Information Security in the Quantum Era. Threats to modern cryptography: Grover’s algorithm

Mihai-Zicu Mina
Emil Simion
Abstract

Information security plays a major role in the dynamics of today’s interconnected world. Despite the successful implementation and effectiveness of modern cryptographic techniques, their inherent limitations can be exploited by quantum computers. In this article we discuss Grover’s quantum searching algorithm and its impact on the security of modern symmetric ciphers. More specifically, we present its formal description and give an implementation of the algorithm using IBM’s Qiskit framework, which allows us to simulate and run the program on a real device.

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Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2021-12-20: last updated
2021-12-20: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2021/1662
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/1662,
      author = {Mihai-Zicu Mina and Emil Simion},
      title = {Information Security in the Quantum Era. Threats to modern cryptography: Grover’s algorithm},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2021/1662},
      year = {2021},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1662}
}
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