SaTC: EDU: A Curriculum for Quantum Security and Trust

SaTC：EDU：量子安全和信任课程

• 批准号: 2113839
• 负责人: Swaroop Ghosh
• 金额: $ 21.5万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-06-15 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2113839&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SaTC; EDU; Curriculum; Quantum; Security

Quantum computing is significantly faster than its classical counterparts at solving certain types of problems, including those with applications in cryptography. Encryption is used to protect hard disk data, communication channels, and sensitive user data in large scale data centers from eavesdropping, misuse, and tampering. The use of quantum computers to carry out cyberattacks on these systems has the potential to expose a wide variety of user data placing data worth trillions of dollars at risk. Quantum computing courses presented in the computer science domain are typically introduced at a theoretical level with little emphasis on hands-on activities using real quantum hardware. Courses addressing quantum computing in the physics domain focus on quantum mechanical properties of materials. Meanwhile, industry is producing Noisy-Intermediate-Scale-Quantum computers paving the way for research on practical applications of quantum computing, including using off-the-shelf algorithms to solve problems related to cryptography, which are areas not currently covered in quantum computing courses . As a result, there is a widening gap between coursework and industry advancement that needs to be addressed to ensure there is an adequately skilled workforce prepared to address the opportunities and threats that will arise as quantum computing becomes more widely accessible. This project hopes to address this gap and to advance cybersecurity education through the development of a flexible and portable course that can be easily adopted.This project intends to create a hands-on curriculum for undergraduate students, using the Quantum Security and Trust (QUEST) framework, to allow students to apply their newly acquired knowledge immediately as part of the learning process. The proposed curriculum rests on activities and games on the QUEST framework to reinforce relevant concepts. The students will create various circuits on QUEST and validate them in simulations and on real quantum hardware. This approach should enable personalized learning at low cost due to cloud-based access to quantum hardware and a simulator. It also hopes to facilitate self-learning of complex quantum computing concepts through hands-on activities. The proposed course can be taken by undergraduate students with minimal prerequisite knowledge. Therefore, a large population of undergraduate students can be exposed to quantum computing and cybersecurity early in their career. This project is supported by the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program, which funds proposals that address cybersecurity and privacy, and in this case specifically cybersecurity education. The SaTC program aligns with the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan and the National Privacy Research Strategy to protect and preserve the growing social and economic benefits of cyber systems while ensuring security and privacy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

量子计算在解决某些类型的问题时比经典计算要快得多，包括那些在密码学中的应用。 加密用于保护大规模数据中心中的硬盘数据、通信信道和敏感用户数据免受窃听、滥用和篡改。使用量子计算机对这些系统进行网络攻击有可能暴露各种用户数据，使价值数万亿美元的数据处于危险之中。 在计算机科学领域中呈现的量子计算课程通常在理论层面上介绍，很少强调使用真实的量子硬件的实践活动。物理学领域的量子计算课程侧重于材料的量子力学性质。与此同时，工业界正在生产噪声-中等规模-量子计算机，为量子计算的实际应用研究铺平道路，包括使用现成的算法来解决与密码学相关的问题，这些问题是量子计算课程目前未涉及的领域 . 因此，课程和行业进步之间的差距越来越大，需要加以解决，以确保有足够熟练的劳动力准备应对随着量子计算变得更加广泛而出现的机遇和威胁。该项目希望通过开发一个灵活和便携的课程来解决这一差距，并促进网络安全教育。该项目旨在为本科生创建一个实践课程，使用量子安全和信任（QUEST）框架，让学生立即将他们新获得的知识作为学习过程的一部分。拟议的课程依赖于活动和游戏的QUEST框架，以加强相关的概念。学生将在QUEST上创建各种电路，并在模拟和真实的量子硬件上验证它们。这种方法应该能够以低成本实现个性化学习，因为它可以基于云访问量子硬件和模拟器。它还希望通过实践活动促进复杂量子计算概念的自学。拟议的课程可以采取的本科生与最低限度的先决条件的知识。 因此，大量的本科生可以在职业生涯的早期接触量子计算和网络安全。该项目得到了安全和值得信赖的网络空间（SaTC）计划的支持，该计划为解决网络安全和隐私问题的提案提供资金，在这种情况下，特别是网络安全教育。SATC计划与联邦网络安全研究和发展战略计划和国家隐私研究战略保持一致，以保护和维护网络系统日益增长的社会和经济效益，同时确保安全和隐私。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Special Session: On the Reliability of Conventional and Quantum Neural Network Hardware

特别会议：论传统和量子神经网络硬件的可靠性

• DOI: 10.1109/vts52500.2021.9794194
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: VLSI Test Symposium
• 作者: Sadi, Mehdi;He, Yi;Li, Yanjing;Alam, Mahabubul;Kundu, Satwik;Ghosh, Swaroop;Bahrami, Javad;Karimi, Naghmeh
• 通讯作者: Karimi, Naghmeh

Split Compilation for Security of Quantum Circuits

量子电路安全的分割编译

• DOI: 10.1109/iccad51958.2021.9643478
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: 10.1109/ICCAD51958.2021.9643478
• 作者: Saki, Abdullah Ash;Suresh, Aakarshitha;Topaloglu, Rasit Onur;Ghosh, Swaroop
• 通讯作者: Ghosh, Swaroop

Quantum Computing at the Intersection of Engineering, Technology, Science, and Societal Need: Design of NGSS-aligned Quantum Drug Discovery Lessons for Middle School Students

工程、技术、科学和社会需求交叉点的量子计算：为中学生设计符合 NGSS 的量子药物发现课程

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference
• 作者: Amy Voss Farris, Anna Eunji

Trainable PQC-Based QRAM for Quantum Storage

用于量子存储的可训练的基于 PQC 的 QRAM

• DOI: 10.1109/access.2023.3278600
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: IEEE Access
• 影响因子: 3.9
• 作者: Phalak, Koustubh;Li, Junde;Ghosh, Swaroop
• 通讯作者: Ghosh, Swaroop

SCANN: Side Channel Analysis of Spiking Neural Networks

• DOI: 10.3390/cryptography7020017
• 发表时间: 2023-03
• 期刊: Cryptogr.
• 作者: Karthikeyan Nagarajan;Rupshali Roy;R. Topaloglu;Sachhidh Kannan;Swaroop Ghosh