Quantum Computer Side-Channel and Fault Injection Security Analysis

Ferhat Erata, Chuanqi Xu, Jakub Szefer
Nov 1, 2023
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Ferhat Erata
Ferhat Erata
PhD Candidate at Yale | Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon AI

My research interests include automated reasoning, program synthesis, neurosymbolic approaches, security, and formal verification.

Publications

Quantum Circuit Reconstruction from Power Side-Channel Attacks on Quantum Computer Controllers
The interest in quantum computing has grown rapidly in recent years, and with it grows the importance of securing quantum circuits. A …
Ferhat Erata, Chuanqi Xu, Ruzica Piskac, Jakub Szefer
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Systematic Use of Random Self-Reducibility against Physical Attacks
This work presents a novel, black-box software-based countermeasure against physical attacks including power side-channel and …
Ferhat Erata, TingHung Chiu, Anthony Etim, Srilalith Nampally, Tejas Raju, Rajashree Ramu, Ruzica Piskac, Timos Antonopoulos, Wenjie Xiong, Jakub Szefer
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Classification of Quantum Computer Fault Injection Attacks
The rapid growth of interest in quantum computing has brought about the need to secure these powerful machines against a range of …
Chuanqi Xu, Ferhat Erata, Jakub Szefer
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Exploration of Power Side-Channel Vulnerabilities in Quantum Computer Controllers
This work shows the first exploration and study of power-based side-channel attacks in quantum computers. The explored attacks could be used to recover information about the control pulses sent to these computers. By analyzing these control pulses, attackers can reverse-engineer the equivalent gate-level description of the circuits, and the algorithms being run, or data hard-coded into the circuits.
Chuanqi Xu, Ferhat Erata, Jakub Szefer
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Exploration of Power Side-Channel Vulnerabilities in Quantum Computer Controllers