In the last few years, quantum computing has experienced a growth spurt. One
exciting avenue of quantum computing is quantum machine learning (QML) which
can exploit the high dimensional Hilbert space to learn richer representations
from limited data and thus can efficiently solve complex learning tasks.
Despite the increased interest in QML, there have not been many studies that
discuss the security aspects of QML. In this work, we explored the possible
future applications of QML in the hardware security domain. We also expose the
security vulnerabilities of QML and emerging attack models, and corresponding
countermeasures.