Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Network Instrument: Measuring PQC Adoption Rates and Identifying Migration Pathways
Jakub Sowa, Bach Hoang, Advaith Yeluru, Steven Qie, Anita Nikolich,, Ravishankar Iyer, Phuong Cao

TL;DR
This paper introduces a novel network instrument to measure post-quantum cryptography adoption, revealing initial low adoption rates and pathways for migration to quantum-resistant protocols at a national scale.
Contribution
It presents the first large-scale measurement of PQC adoption in supercomputing centers and testbeds, and discusses challenges and strategies for migration to quantum-resistant cryptography.
Findings
OpenSSH and Google Chrome have initial PQC implementation.
Adoption rate of PQC at NCSA is 0.029%.
Year-over-year increase in PQC adoption observed.
Abstract
The problem of adopting quantum-resistant cryptographic network protocols or post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is critically important to democratizing quantum computing. The problem is urgent because practical quantum computers will break classical encryption in the next few decades. Past encrypted data has already been collected and can be decrypted in the near future. The main challenges of adopting post-quantum cryptography lie in algorithmic complexity and hardware/software/network implementation. The grand question of how existing cyberinfrastructure will support post-quantum cryptography remains unanswered. This paper describes: i) the design of a novel Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) network instrument placed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a part of the FABRIC testbed; ii) the latest results on…
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Taxonomy
TopicsQuantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture · Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption · Cellular Automata and Applications
