Michael Portnoy
Quantum computers are rendering current encryption methods useless. The security of military, financial, and infrastructural networks are at major risk of attack. Quantum random number generation is our only hope...
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Random number generation is a key algorithm in cybersecurity and data analysis. Classical computing-based PRNGs are insufficient, and grow more so as significant progress is made in quantum computing. Qubits and gate operators that make up the quantum computer expedite computations of certain problems just as Shore's algorithm speeds up prime factorization using quantum phase estimation. However qubits could also be used to fortify encryptions when used as a true random number generator. We propose a method of generating random numbers with randomized qubit gates. A 7-qubit circuit was used to generate random parameters for a gate to operate on a 10-qubit circuit. The Hadamard gate was applied to the initial qubits, which yielded new, random gates for the following 10 qubits. By adding another layer of randomization, the RNG was made more robust.
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