A Study on Quantum Cryptography Based Security Management in Cloud

Cloud Computing is the latest technology that has come to the center-stage because of its ability to achieve economies of scale, quite like mass-production. However, shifting to Cloud comes with certain strings attached, especially security concerns associated with outsourcing critical data and processing to a third party. One way to tackle the security issues can be approaching it using Quantum Computing, which itself is a highly researched area with huge expectations from the researchers. So far, the two fields (viz. Cloud Computing and Quantum Computing), have been researched independent of each other. The paper explains why they should be integrated. The paper presents quantum cryptographic protocols and studies their application in enhancing Cloud security, particularly Network security and Data security. Further, it outlines the work that can be done and finally, seeks to identify possible research directions.