US 12,335,396 B2
Superpositioned qubits as finite token generators for authentication
Leigh Griffin, Waterford (IE); and Stephen Coady, Dublin (IE)
Assigned to Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US)
Filed by Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US)
Filed on May 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/319,944.
Prior Publication US 2024/0388434 A1, Nov. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 9/3213 (2013.01) [H04L 9/0852 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
responsive to a request for instantiation of a quantum token generating service from an authenticating computing system, instantiating, by a quantum computing system comprising one or more processing devices, an instance of the quantum token generating service, wherein:
instantiating the instance of the quantum token generating service comprises reserving, by the quantum computing system, a set of qubits for the instance of the quantum token generating service that are accessible to the authenticating computing system;
determining, by the quantum computing system, that the authenticating computing system has accessed the set of qubits via the instance of the quantum token generating service to generate a first token; and
applying, by the quantum computing system, electromagnetic bias to a qubit of the set of qubits to weight the qubit such that each subsequent token generated with the instance of the quantum token generating service is different than the first token.