Quantum-Safe-Internet

QSI旨在培养一批世界级的博士研究人员（DR），他们能够在网络安全的高要求领域采取接下来的重要步骤。我们的目标是通过开发用于数据安全实际应用的新技术，在不同学科的战略选择的行业和学术合作伙伴之间建立强大的持久联系。与此同时，我们还将通过长期合作的跨学科方法，将所有相关社区的专业知识联合收割机结合起来，以解决量子时代安全通信的关键基本问题及其重要应用。计划中的培训网络将为新一代DR提供研究和培训机会，从长远来看，他们将应对提供“量子安全互联网”的巨大挑战，即，一个通信基础设施，不仅可以抵御经典攻击，还可以抵御量子技术带来的攻击。今天的互联网安全严重依赖于计算复杂性假设，因此受到量子计算技术进步的严重威胁。事实上，我们最近目睹了一些IT巨头在这方面的一波关键发展，例如，谷歌、IBM、微软和英特尔。这尤其会危及需要长期安全性的应用程序。随着越来越多的私人信息以数字方式存储和通信，此类应用程序的数量不断增长，例如，电子健康记录，现在欧洲立法要求长期保持安全。这就要求我们紧急开发和实施新的解决方案，正如我们计划在这个博士网络（DN）中所做的那样。

QSI aims at training a world-class cohort of doctoral researchers (DRs) capable of taking the next essential steps in the highly demanding area of cybersecurity. We aim to build strong lasting links between strategically selected industry and academic partners, in different disciplines, via the development of novel technologies for practical applications in data security. In parallel, we will also combine, via a collaborative long-term interdisciplinary approach, expertise in all relevant communities to address key fundamental problems in secure communications in the quantum era, and the important applications therein. The planned training network will provide research and training opportunities to a new generation of DRs, who, in the long-run, shall address the Grand Challenge of providing "Quantum-Safe Internet", i.e., a communication infrastructure that is secure against not only classical attacks but also thoseenabled by quantum technologies. Today's Internet security heavily relies on computational complexity assumptions, and as such is seriously threatened by advancements in quantum computing technologies. Indeed, we have recently witnessed a wave of key developments in this direction by a number of IT giants, e.g., Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Intel. This particularly jeopardizes applications that require long-term security. The number of such applications is continuously growing as more and more of our private information is stored and communicated in a digital way, e.g., electronic health records, which are now required by European legislation to remain secure for a long time. This requires us to urgently develop and implement new solutions, as we plan to do in this Doctoral Network (DN).