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Prepare Today. Protect tomorrow.An official OWASP community project mapping the security 2026-8-23 04:13:21 Author: kitploit.com(查看原文) 阅读量:8 收藏

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Prepare Today. Protect tomorrow.

An official OWASP community project mapping the security risks of the quantum era in a practical, vendor-neutral, and risk-based way - the antidote to hype and fear.

Status: Bootstrap phase. The OWASP Top 10 for Quantum Security Risks is at draft v0.1 and open for community input. It is our starting point, not the finished list.


About the project

NIST, the UK NCSC, and EU institutions have all issued concrete guidance on post-quantum cryptography, crypto-agility, and harvest-now-decrypt-later mitigation - while quantum systems themselves move from research into cloud and enterprise environments. Yet security teams still face three gaps:

  1. No concise, prioritised view of quantum security risks.
  2. No widely adopted threat model for quantum platforms.
  3. Organisational readiness and platform security are treated separately.

This project closes those gaps with work that is:

  • Practical and immediate - helping defenders act on quantum risk today, not in a decade.
  • Systematic and risk-based - mapping the landscape in a structured, prioritised way.
  • Actionable and grounded - tied to recognised guidance from NIST, NCSC, and the EU.
  • One community - connecting research, industry, and practitioners in a shared effort.

Two tracks

TrackFocusKey deliverables
Track 1 (primary, year one)Quantum security risks & readinessOWASP Top 10 for Quantum Security Risks, mitigation guidance, and a Quantum Readiness Assessment Assistant
Track 2 (parallel)Quantum platform threat modelingThreat models, reference architectures, attack-surface mapping, and secure-design guidance for quantum platforms

Project leads

  • John Sotiropoulos
  • Roy Barkay

The project runs expert-backed and community-driven, with open and transparent peer review and project-lead sign-off. Additional working-group and entry leads are being onboarded as the project matures.

See the project charter for the mission, scope, governance, and ways of working.


The OWASP Top 10 for Quantum Security Risks

Draft v0.1. Each entry lives under quantum-top-10/.

The route from the v0.1 draft to a community-validated v1 is laid out in the sprint plan and project timeline.

QS01-QS07 address the migration surface - risks to organisations whose existing classical cryptography must be replaced with post-quantum equivalents. QS08-QS10 address the platform surface - risks to organisations running workloads on quantum computing platforms.

IDRiskPrimary anchor
QS01Harvest-Now-Decrypt-Later ExposureEU Roadmap end-2030; NCSC 2031; NSM-10
QS02Long-Lived Sensitive DataMosca's inequality; EU Roadmap end-2030
QS03Vulnerable Signatures and Code-SigningNSA CNSA 2.0 by 2030; CRA Annex I
QS04Absent Cryptographic Inventory and CBOMNCSC 2028; EU Roadmap end-2026
QS05Crypto-Agility FailuresNIS2 Article 21(2)(h); IETF PQUIP/TLS WG
QS06Insecure Migration and Hybrid MisuseEU Roadmap end-2030 standalone-classical prohibition
QS07Hardware Roots of TrustNCSC 2028 milestone; CRA Annex IV
QS08QPU Tenant Isolation FailuresLi et al. NDSS 2025; Xu et al. CCS 2023
QS09Toolchain and Compiler CompromiseSuresh et al. HASP 2021; Chu et al. ICASSP 2023
QS10Side-Channel and Control-Plane ExposureMi et al. CCS 2022; Xu et al. CCS 2023

Each entry follows a common template: description, common examples, prevention, example attack scenarios, references, and a standards-and-regulatory mapping.


The project runs a biweekly community call (Mondays 17:30-18:30 London, starting 3 August 2026 - see Community and contact for the Zoom and calendar details), with additional calls on demand as the work picks up. Decks for every call are published in calls/, starting with the project kick-off deck; decks for subsequent calls are added there as they happen.


How to contribute

Feedback and contributions are welcome - this is a community project and the Top 10 is explicitly a draft opened for discussion.

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/OWASP/quantum-security-project.git
cd quantum-security-project

2. Propose a change with a pull request

git checkout -b my-contribution
# edit or add entries under quantum-top-10/ (start from _template.md for new risks)
git commit -am "Describe your change"
git push -u origin my-contribution

Then open a pull request against main. Please ground new or revised content in published standards, regulation, or peer-reviewed research, and keep the project vendor-neutral.

3. Or share feedback via GitHub Issues

Prefer to discuss before writing a change? Open an issue to suggest a candidate risk, flag an error, question the selection or ordering, or start a conversation. Issues are the best place for feedback that isn't yet a concrete edit.

Quick submission forms

During the bootstrap phase you can also contribute via these forms without using GitHub:


The project follows OWASP's standard documentation and contribution practices, including the OWASP Code of Conduct and vendor neutrality.


License

Content is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.


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