3 papers
quant-ph2025
Masking Countermeasures Against Side-Channel Attacks on Quantum Computers
Jason T. LeGrow, Travis Morrison, Jamie Sikora +1
We propose a modification to the transpiler of a quantum computer to safeguard against side-channel attacks aimed at learning information about a quantum circuit. We demonstrate th…
quant-ph2024
Improving device-independent weak coin flipping protocols
Atul Singh Arora, Jamie Sikora, Thomas Van Himbeeck
Weak coin flipping is the cryptographic task where Alice and Bob remotely flip a coin but want opposite outcomes. This work studies this task in the device-independent regime where…
cs.CR2024
A Thorough Study of State Leakage Mitigation in Quantum Computing with One-Time Pad
Chuanqi Xu, Jamie Sikora, Jakub Szefer
The ability for users to access quantum computers through the cloud has increased rapidly in recent years. Despite still being Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) machines, mod…