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Downtime Required for Bitcoin Quantum-Safety
Jamie J. Pont, Joseph J. Kearney, Jack Moyler +1
Quantum devices capable of breaking the public-key cryptosystems that Bitcoin relies on to secure its transactions are expected with reasonable probability within a decade. Quantum…
Q-COSMIC: Quantum Software Metrics Based on COSMIC (ISO/IEC19761)
Francisco Valdes-Souto, Hector G. Perez-Gonzalez, Carlos A. Perez-Delgado
Quantum engineering seeks to exploit quantum information to build, among others, computing, cybersecurity, and metrology technologies. Quantum Software Engineering (QSE) focuses on…
Quantum Blockchain Miners Provide Massive Energy Savings
Joseph Kearney, Carlos A Perez-Delgado
Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies have become an extremely important, highly-used, technology. A major criticism of cryptocurrencies, however, is their energy consumption. In May 2…
Quantum Advantage on Proof of Work
Dan A. Bard, Joseph J. Kearney, Carlos A. Perez-Delgado
Proof-of-Work (PoW) is a fundamental underlying technology behind most major blockchain cryptocurrencies. It has been previously pointed out that quantum devices provide a computat…
Vulnerability of Blockchain Technologies to Quantum Attacks
Joseph J. Kearney, Carlos A. Perez-Delgado
Quantum computation represents a threat to many cryptographic protocols in operation today. It has been estimated that by 2035, there will exist a quantum computer capable of break…
Towards a Quantum Software Modeling Language
Carlos A. Perez-Delgado, Hector G. Perez-Gonzalez
We set down the principles behind a modeling language for quantum software. We present a minimal set of extensions to the well-known Unified Modeling Language (UML) that allows it…