Building a standardised quantum-safe networking architecture

构建标准化的量子安全网络架构

• 批准号: 80304
• 金额: $ 37.99万
• 依托单位: KETS QUANTUM SECURITY LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Responsive Strategy and Planning
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=80304
• 关键词: Building; standardised; quantum; safe; networking

Quantum computing has moved from academic labs to commercialization and start-ups are making rapid, demonstrable progress as evidenced by new and emerging product and service offerings. While this is good news for advances in things like quantum chemistry and simulation, it also means that the \`quantum threat' to our current cryptographic methods is getting closer by the day. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) are quantum-safe cyber security tools that are resilient against the computational threats of quantum computing. These tools are typically not used on their own, but instead, are sub-components of larger secure networks and broader cybersecurity product offerings.Building on the already rich heritage of UK and Canadian efforts into quantum communications technologies, our vision in this project is to bring these together to develop and define a QKD network software library and hardware integration standard for all types of physical systems (fibre, free-space, satellite, etc), develop a new integrated QKD-HSM (hardware security module) appliance as a key component of a quantum-safe network fabric, and develop a first proof-of-principle quantum-safe network implementation in order to prepare for Canadian and UK QKD networks to be connected.The end goal of this project is to provide commercial businesses and governments a common quantum-safe network standard and abstraction layer which they can then use to build their required higher level applications on top of, such as websites and e-commerce platforms, while ensuring their security is quantum-safe and the communication is interoperable with other organisations.

量子计算已经从学术实验室转向商业化，初创企业正在取得快速，可证明的进展，新的和新兴的产品和服务产品就是明证。虽然这对量子化学和模拟等方面的进步来说是个好消息，但这也意味着对我们当前加密方法的“量子威胁”越来越近了。量子密钥分发（QKD）和后量子密码学（PQC）是量子安全的网络安全工具，可以抵御量子计算的计算威胁。这些工具通常不会单独使用，而是更大的安全网络和更广泛的网络安全产品的子组件。基于英国和加拿大在量子通信技术方面已经取得的丰富成果，我们在这个项目中的愿景是将这些技术结合起来，为所有类型的物理系统开发和定义QKD网络软件库和硬件集成标准（光纤、自由空间、卫星等），开发新的集成QKD-HSM（硬件安全模块）设备作为量子安全网络结构的关键组件，并开发第一个原理验证量子安全网络实施，为加拿大和英国QKD网络的连接做好准备。该项目的最终目标是为商业企业和政府提供一个通用的量子-安全的网络标准和抽象层，然后他们可以使用这些标准和抽象层在其上构建所需的更高级别的应用程序，例如网站和电子商务平台，同时确保其安全性是量子安全的，并且可以与其他组织进行互操作。