On August 1, in order to meet the next digital era and the security challenges related to quantum computing, guests from industry, government and academia participated in the Quantum Security Conference initiated by Chelpis Quantum Tech, a Taiwanese cryptographic technology startup The opening ceremony of the Quantum Safe Migration Center (QSMC).
Ming Chih, the founder of Chian Quantum, said that the company is committed to post-quantum security and solving customer-related security issues. To strengthen Taiwan's information security resilience, the Quantum Security Migration Center will serve as a bridge connecting government, industry, academic institutions, and international researchers. Ming Chih expects Taiwan to soon release a blueprint for post-quantum security and incorporate it into its national security plans, as other European countries and the United States do.
Matthias J. Kannwischer, director of QSMC, has been studying quantum cryptography for many years, which is also the topic of his doctoral thesis. For many years, he has been thinking about how to combine academia and industry to effectively apply post-quantum cryptography to various fields.
Kannwischer is pleased to see academic research being applied in the real world, attracting the attention of companies and government agencies. The center is the first in Taiwan and even Asia to provide an encryption system that can withstand quantum computer attacks.
Dr. Fan Junyi, Director of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, said that Taiwan has many advantages in semiconductors and IT hardware, which can attract the attention of foreign companies and create a platform that integrates precise network security, low-carbon information security, and information security. ecosystem. The field of post-quantum cryptography in Taiwan is relatively scattered, and everyone is fighting on their own. If the government can form a "post-quantum national team", it will be able to integrate national resources, build a talent echelon, and achieve progress in cybersecurity.
Raylin Tso, a professor of the Department of Computer Science at National Chengchi University in Taiwan, said that the Quantum Security Migration Center can help Taiwan move towards the post-quantum security era. It serves as a platform to integrate the resources, professional knowledge and technologies of various universities so that everyone can exist on an equal footing. Cao Wenxuan said that the school hopes to have a long-term cooperation with the center.
Yang Bo-yin, a researcher at the Institute of Information Science at the Academia Sinica, said Taiwan should offer incentives and attractive salaries to attract highly skilled talent. He said it would be difficult for the private sector to cover the costs, so the public sector should take the lead.
Yang Zhenning said that compared with the research and development investment in the field of biomedicine, biochemistry and pharmaceuticals, the related expenditure of post-quantum cryptography is more cost-effective. While the benefits may not be seen immediately, it is a necessary investment.
Zhou Tong, an assistant researcher at the Information Technology Innovation Research Center of the Academia Sinica, said government agencies and enterprises should sort out which data will remain critical over time, say 20 years from now, and transition it to the new encryption system first. Without the protection of post-quantum technology, this data would be vulnerable to cyber attacks.
The center is supported by organizations or interest groups working to strengthen information security, including the Digital Taiwan Roundtable (DTR), the Information Industry Research Institute (III), and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), among others .
QSMC's partners include Academia Sinica, National Taiwan University, National Yangming Chiao Tung University, National Sun Yat-Sen University, and other academic institutions. In order to allow Taiwan to transition to a post-quantum encryption system as soon as possible, the center also cooperates with a number of information security experts, using their years of experience, relevant insights on quantum security and post-quantum encryption, and lessons learned through industry-university cooperation.
QSMC plans to publish at least one article per quarter and publish a book or guide. In the future, QSMC will also set up a working group to invite foreign scholars and experts to cooperate with Taiwan counterparts through various activities.
On August 1, Chian Quantum founder Ming Chih (first from left) took a group photo with the senior leaders of the Institute for Information Industry at the signing of the cooperation agreement.
Chi'an Quantum, established in 2017, and its subsequent quantum cryptography (PQC) can protect automation equipment from quantum computing attacks.
In April this year, Infineon Technologies AG announced the cooperation with Chian Quantum to launch the Edge-to which combines Infineon's TPM 2.0-compliant hardware high-end security chip OPTIGA™ TPM SLB 9672 and Chian Quantum's software encryption technology. -Cloud information security solutions, endowing terminal devices with the ability to distribute security functions across multiple layers from the hardware layer to the cloud application layer . This solution adopts the Zero Trust Architecture (Zero Trust Architecture), provides product user credentials and authorization authentication, and introduces multiple security management mechanisms in firmware updates, including support for post-quantum cryptography that can block quantum computing attacks, and end-to-end encryption Technology (E2EE), product endpoint authentication (Secure Device Provisioning), etc. This solution provides protection against multiple cyber threats, such as preventing device software platform from being tampered with, illegal updates of software and firmware, and blocking foreign virus intrusion, etc.
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[1]https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4958467
[2]https://www.qsmc.org/zh
[3]https://www.chelpis.com/post