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SPQR Cluster
A momentous collaboration between QUBIP & PQ-REACT EU projects, dedicated to spearheading the European Union’s transition into the post-quantum cryptography era. In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and evolving security threats, our joint effort is promising to smooth the transition and enhance EU’s cybersecurity.
Leveraging cutting-edge technologies and visionary strategies, our collective endeavor is poised to redefine the landscape of cybersecurity and ensure the integrity of digital communication in the years to come.
A momentous collaboration between QUBIP & PQ-REACT EU projects, dedicated to spearheading the European Union’s transition into the post-quantum cryptography era. In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and evolving security threats, our joint effort is promising to smooth the transition and enhance EU’s cybersecurity.
Leveraging cutting-edge technologies and visionary strategies, our collective endeavor is poised to redefine the landscape of cybersecurity and ensure the integrity of digital communication in the years to come.
The Projects involved
PQ-REACT aims to design, develop and validate a framework for a faster and smoother transition from classical to post-quantum cryptography. Utilizing Europe’s most potent quantum infrastructure (the IBM Quantum Computer from Fraunhofer FOKUS), the PQ-REACT primary objective is to design, develop, and validate a framework for a faster and simpler transition from classical to post-quantum cryptography for a broad spectrum of contexts and usage domains. This framework will incorporate PQC migration routes, cryptographic agility techniques, and a toolkit for validating post-quantum cryptographic systems. Users can switch to post-quantum cryptography through this framework, considering their unique circumstances, different contexts, and a wide range of real-world pilots, such as Smart Grids, 5G, and ledgers. Further, the project will also foster a series of open calls for SMEs and other stakeholders to bring and test their PQC algorithms and external pilots on the PQ-REACT, Quantum Computing Infrastructure.
The Projects involved
PQ-REACT aims to design, develop and validate a framework for a faster and smoother transition from classical to post-quantum cryptography. Utilizing Europe’s most potent quantum infrastructure (the IBM Quantum Computer from Fraunhofer FOKUS), the PQ-REACT primary objective is to design, develop, and validate a framework for a faster and simpler transition from classical to post-quantum cryptography for a broad spectrum of contexts and usage domains. This framework will incorporate PQC migration routes, cryptographic agility techniques, and a toolkit for validating post-quantum cryptographic systems. Users can switch to post-quantum cryptography through this framework, considering their unique circumstances, different contexts, and a wide range of real-world pilots, such as Smart Grids, 5G, and ledgers. Further, the project will also foster a series of open calls for SMEs and other stakeholders to bring and test their PQC algorithms and external pilots on the PQ-REACT, Quantum Computing Infrastructure.
The development of Quantum Computers (QC) is opening up exciting new frontiers, but it comes at the cost of breaking the foundations of current digital security. The research community is working to define Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) to counter this threat. However, the transition to PQC is delicate and time-consuming because it affects many functions, algorithms, and protocols in an a priori unknown cascade of dependencies. QUBIP is designed to contribute to the EU transition to PQC with the aim of streamlining the process and creating a replicable transition model (and also to counter Post-Quantum threat as soon as possible). QUBIP focuses on digital systems addressing the 5 main building blocks that use public-key cryptography for security purposes: hardware, cryptographic libraries, operating system, communication protocols and applications. QUBIP addresses all 5 blocks coherently solving all dependency issues that may arise within each block and between blocks with the ultimate goal of validating at TRL 6 three systems that use these blocks in IoT-based Digital Manufacturing, Internet Browsing, and Software Networks Environments for Telcos use cases.
The return on experience from the three practical exercises of transition to PQC will then be maximised through the development of a migration playbook. This will include the lessons learnt and an evaluation of any technical, economic, and regulatory barriers encountered, together with the solutions to overcome them, in order to enable the definition of a replicable process to provide structured support and practical guidance to industry stakeholders. The technical activities will be underpinned by three supporting activities (i) evaluation of the capabilities of QCs to assess their implication to primitives, algorithms and protocols adopted, and contribution to (ii) standardization efforts addressing transition to PQC processes and (iii) policy measures addressing technology changes coming from the advent of QC and PQC.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 101119547. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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