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Quantum Cryptanalysis Demonstrated on IBM Hardware

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Researchers have successfully executed quantum cryptanalysis on real IBM quantum hardware, specifically targeting symmetric cipher structures. They extended the Even-Mansour period recovery from a security parameter of N=4 to N=10 using Simon's algorithm on IBM's Heron generation processors. The study also benchmarked five different quantum attacks across four cipher design paradigms, demonstrating their execution on up to 25 qubits in simulation and submitting a 21-qubit instance to hardware. The work highlights real-hardware demonstrations at record structure sizes and provides a reproducible benchmark, while clarifying that these attacks target reduced constructions and do not break full AES or RSA. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates progress in quantum computing's application to cryptography, potentially impacting future encryption standards.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing quantum cryptanalysis research on specific hardware. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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Quantum Cryptanalysis Demonstrated on IBM Hardware

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Taebong Kim, Youngsik Hong, Minsik Kim, Sunyoung Choi, Jaewon Jang, Junghoon Shin, Minseo Kim ·

    Quantum Cryptanalysis on IBM Quantum Hardware: Extending Even--Mansour Period Recovery from $N=4$ to $N=10$

    arXiv:2607.18340v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We report genuine-un-compiled, textbook-faithful-quantum cryptanalysis of symmetric-cipher structures executed on real IBM quantum hardware (ibm\_kingston, Heron generation). Using Simon's algorithm we recover the hidden period of…

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