Quantum Key Distribution in Kubernetes Clusters

Ignazio Pedone and Antonio Lioy
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Ignazio Pedone: Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy
Antonio Lioy: Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy

Future Internet, 2022, vol. 14, issue 6, 1-19

Abstract: Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) represents a reasonable countermeasure to the advent of Quantum Computing and its impact on current public-key cryptography. So far, considerable efforts have been devoted to investigate possible application scenarios for QKD in several domains such as Cloud Computing and NFV. This paper extends a previous work whose main objective was to propose a new software stack, the Quantum Software Stack (QSS), to integrate QKD into software-defined infrastructures. The contribution of this paper is twofold: enhancing the previous work adding functionalities to the first version of the QSS, and presenting a practical integration of the QSS in Kubernetes, which is the de-facto standard for container orchestration.

Keywords: Quantum Key Distribution; Quantum Cryptography; software-defined infrastructures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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