Mateusz Leśniak ; Michał Wroński - Privacy for Quantum Annealing. Attack on Spin Reversal Transformations in the case of cryptanalysis

fi:14346 - Fundamenta Informaticae, January 11, 2026, Volume 194, Issue 4: Central European Conference on Cryptology 2024 - https://doi.org/10.46298/fi.14346
Privacy for Quantum Annealing. Attack on Spin Reversal Transformations in the case of cryptanalysisArticle

Authors: Mateusz Leśniak ORCID; Michał Wroński ORCID

    This paper demonstrates that applying spin reversal transformations (SRT), commonly known as a sufficient method for privacy enhancement in problems solved using quantum annealing, does not guarantee privacy for all possible cases. We show how to recover the original problem from the Ising problem obtained using SRT when the resulting problem in Ising form represents the algebraic attack on the $E_0$ stream cipher. A small example illustrates how to retrieve the original problem from that transformed by SRT. Moreover, we show that our method is efficient also for full-scale problems.


    Volume: Volume 194, Issue 4: Central European Conference on Cryptology 2024
    Published on: January 11, 2026
    Accepted on: August 8, 2025
    Submitted on: September 27, 2024
    Keywords: Cryptography and Security