The secure command and control (C&C) of mobile agents arises in various settings including unmanned aerial vehicles, single pilot operations in commercial settings, and mobile robots to name a few. As more and more of these applications get integrated into aerospace and defense use cases, the security of the communication channel between the ground station and the mobile agent is of increasing importance. The development of quantum computing devices poses a unique threat to secure communications due to the vulnerability of asymmetric ciphers to Shor's algorithm. Given the active development of new quantum resistant encryption techniques, we report the first integration of post-quantum secure encryption schemes with the robot operating system (ROS) and C&C of mobile agents, in general. We integrate these schemes in the application and network layers, and study the performance of these methods by comparing them to present day security schemes such as the widely used RSA algorithm.

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移动代理的后量子安全命令和控制：在安全机器人操作系统中插入抗量子加密方案

移动代理的安全指挥和控制 (C&C) 出现在各种环境中，包括无人机、商业环境中的单人飞行员操作和移动机器人等等。随着越来越多的这些应用程序集成到航空航天和国防用例中，地面站和移动代理之间通信通道的安全性变得越来越重要。由于非对称密码对 Shor 算法的脆弱性，量子计算设备的发展对安全通信构成了独特的威胁。鉴于新的抗量子加密技术的积极发展，我们报告了后量子安全加密方案与机器人操作系统 (ROS) 和移动代理 C&C 的首次集成。