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Grover on KATAN: Quantum Resource Estimation

This article presents the cost analysis of mounting Grover’s key search attack on the family of KATAN block cipher. Several designs of the reversible quantum circuit of KATAN are proposed. Owing to the National Insitute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) proposal for postquantum cryptography standardization, the circuits are designed focusing on minimizing the overall depth. […]

Reducing the Cost of Implementing the Advanced Encryption Standard as a Quantum Circuit

January 16, 2020Brandon Langenberg; Hai Pham; Rainer SteinwandtOpen Access, Quantum SoftwareEncryption, Logic gates, NIST, Qubit, Wires

To quantify security levels in a postquantum scenario, it is common to use the quantum resources needed to attack the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) as a reference value. Specifically, in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s ongoing postquantum standardization effort, different security categories are defined that reflect the quantum resources needed to attack AES-128, […]