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Short Paper: Device- and Locality-Specific Fingerprinting of Shared NISQ Quantum Computers

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Allen Mi,

Shuwen Deng,

Jakub SzeferAuthors Info & Claims

HASP '21: Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3505253.3505261

Published: 04 June 2022 Publication History

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Fingerprinting of quantum computer devices is a new threat that poses a challenge to shared, cloud-based quantum computers. Fingerprinting can allow adversaries to map quantum computer infrastructures, uniquely identify cloud-based devices which otherwise have no public identifiers, and it can assist other adversarial attacks. This work shows idle tomography-based fingerprinting method based on crosstalk-induced errors in NISQ quantum computers. The device- and locality-specific fingerprinting results show prediction accuracy values of 99.1% and 95.3%, respectively.

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