Automating Security Testing of Quantum Safe Chips (2026-2027)

Quantum computers are advancing rapidly and pose a serious risk to today¿TM)s digital security systems. Many of the cryptographic techniques protecting banking, communications, and national infrastructure could be broken by future quantum machines. To address this, a new generation of quantum-safe chips is being developed to resist such attacks and safeguard information. This project will create automated testing techniques to verify whether these chips are truly quantum-safe. Currently, testing chip security is largely manual, costly, and slow, limiting innovation in the semiconductor industry. Partnering with Semicon Trend, we will test their state-of-the-art quantum-safe chips in real-world conditions. Our approach includes building threat models, evaluating performance and security, automating testing steps, and defining clear criteria to guide secure chip manufacturing. The expected outcome is faster, cheaper, and more reliable methods to confirm that quantum-safe chips can withsta