QCI-CAT in Hungary

Invitation to "Future Trends in Cryptography" event

On October 10th at the EIT Digital Co-Location Centre in Budapest, Hungary, QCI-CAT was invited to the Future Trends in Cryptography event. 

Together with speakers from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Ethereum and Zama, who were presenting different highly promising trends in cryptograhy, Karim Osman (AIT) gave a talk providing an overview of quantum-key distribution (QKD) and its current developement and planned implementation within the EU. 

After the event had ended, QCI-CAT interconnected with the Hungarian QCI project QCIHungary and discussed their approaches on reaching the common goal of a EuroQCI. 

ABOUT QCI-CAT

Building on the long research experience of Austrian institutions in the field of quantum technologies, the project QCI-CAT aims at an adoption of modern encryption technology based on QKD for highly secure communication between public authorities.

QCI-CAT will investigate and verify new security applications for public authorities, such as secret sharing and message authentication.

Additionally, QCI-CAT will also leverage a research testbed for new technological approaches such as the combination of post-quantum encryption with QKD, long-distance QKD with secured trusted nodes and field trials of quantum repeaters.

This project has received funding from the DIGITAL-2021-QCI-01 Digital European Program under Project number No 101091642 and the National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development.