Quantum Software Security Challenges within Shared Quantum Computing Environments

2025/07/23 by Samuel Ovaskainen, Majid Haghparast, Ovaskainen, Samuel +3
Computer Science · #Cloud Computing and Resource Management #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2507.17712

openalex publication_date 2025/07/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The number of qubits in quantum computers keeps growing, but most quantum programs remain relatively small because of the noisy nature of the underlying quantum hardware. This might lead quantum cloud providers to explore increased hardware utilization, and thus profitability through means such as multi-programming, which would allow the execution of multiple programs in parallel. The adoption of such technology would bring entirely new challenges to the field of quantum software security. This article explores and reports the key challenges identified in quantum software security within shared quantum computing environments.

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