Quantum Particle Query Signaling for Stealth Intrusion Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional network security honeypots are vulnerable to attackers who can distinguish fake targets from real targets, making it difficult to exfiltrate valuable attack information without alerting the attacker.

Innovation Solution

Utilizing principles of quantum mechanics, a continuous stream of quantum particles is transmitted to detect unauthorized access events by causing a microscopic change in the transmission, which is detected as an anomalous error rate at the destination, allowing for surreptitious monitoring of network intrusions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If conventional honeypot systems are used to detect network intrusions, then attack information can be gathered, but attackers can distinguish fake targets from real targets and avoid revealing valuable intelligence

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveattack informationVSAvoidhoneypot detection reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces conventional electronic/network-based honeypot detection mechanisms with quantum mechanical mechanisms. Quantum particles (photons) are used to carry detection signals, and quantum entanglement or quantum measurement effects are exploited to detect intrusions. The quantum system's inherent properties (such as wavefunction collapse or entanglement correlation) provide detection capabilities that are fundamentally different from and more reliable than classical systems, making it difficult for attackers to distinguish quantum honeypots from real targets.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the fundamental parameters of the detection system by transitioning from classical to quantum domains. Key parameters include using quantum states (superposition, entanglement) instead of classical states, and measuring quantum observables (photon polarization, spin) instead of classical parameters. These parameter changes create detection signatures that are unique to quantum systems and difficult for attackers to replicate or recognize as fake targets.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Loss of information

If honeypots operate in production environments to monitor access patterns, then valuable threat intelligence is obtained, but the honeypot may provide signals to attackers that a honeypot incursion has occurred

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvethreat intelligenceVSAvoiddetection signal to attacker

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces quantum particles as intermediaries between the honeypot system and the detection infrastructure. These quantum carriers (photons) transmit intrusion detection information from the production environment to remote quantum receivers without requiring direct electronic connections. The quantum intermediary layer isolates the honeypot from detection networks, preventing attackers from identifying detection mechanisms while still enabling comprehensive monitoring of access patterns and threat intelligence gathering.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Enables the detection of unauthorized access events without alerting the intruder, providing valuable threat intelligence for network security by monitoring access patterns in production systems.

Implementation Method 1

a transmitter device at a first location may transmit a continuous stream of quantum particles to a second location

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectQuantum particle transmission:

Implementation Method 2

both use quantum measurement (e.g. photon polarization)

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectQuantum measurement:

Implementation Method 3

an error rate may be computed based on detecting the stream of quantum particles

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectError rate detection:

Implementation Method 4

Quantum key distribution (QKD) establishes a shared symmetric key between two communicating parties

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectQuantum key distribution:

Implementation Method 5

Some QKD protocols (e.g., E91) use quantum entangled particles (photons)

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectQuantum entanglement:

Data Source

PatentUS20250350449A1Systems and methods for exfiltrating an indication of a query related to a computing resource

Publication Date: 2025.11.13 WELLS FARGO BANK NA

AI summary

Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for exfiltrating an indication of a query related to a computing resource. An example method includes transmitting, by quantum generator circuitry of a transmitter device at a first time, a stream of quantum particles to a second location and monitoring, by embedded access detection circuitry of a first computing device at a second time after the first time, the computing resource for the query. The example method further includes, in an instance in which the query relating to the computing resource is detected, causing, by quantum noise generator circuitry, a microscopic change in a condition of the transmission of the stream of quantum particles, wherein the microscopic change results in a change in an error rate derived from a detection of the stream of quantum particles at the second location.