Second General Assembly in Linz

Yesterday we had the pleasure to meet for the second general assembly of in QCI-CAT in Linz. With the project reaching its second year, the use case implementations and the AustroQCI architecture are maturing and we had interesting discussions on future directions. Stay tuned for more information on the HSM backup and video communication use […]

QCI Days Vienna 2024 Impressions

QCI Days Vienna 2024 has seen large interest by the community and lead to intense and fruitful discussions of the participants. We like to extend a big “thank you” to all the speakers, suppliers, and attendees for making QCI Days Vienna 2024 an unforgettable experience. See you in 2025 in Athens at QCI Days Athens […]

QCI-CAT at PTQCI Workshop

The Portuguese national QCI project held a workshop on Quantum Communication Networks in Aveiro, Portugal, from February 26th to 27th 2024. Both national and international speakers were invited to discuss the implementation of quantum communication networks as part of EuroQCI. From QCI-CAT, Sebastian Ramacher (AIT), Sebastian Ecker (qtlabs) and Christoph Pacher (fragmentiX) were invited to […]

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 […]

QCI-CAT in Latvia

Panel Invitation on “Shaping the Future of Quantum Computing & Post-Quantum Cryptography” On October 18-19, within the context of the 5G Techritory Forum in Riga, Latvia, Christoph Striecks (AIT) participated in a panel discussion on “Shaping the Future of Quantum Computing & Post-Quantum Cryptography.” With 1667 participants from 77 countries and 146 speakers, the overall […]

QCI-CAT in Italy

ARES Conference Secpid 2023 Together with SUNRISE, QCI-CAT co-organized the SECPID workshop at the ARES conference which took place at the Università degli Studi del Sannio-Benevento in Benevento, Italy. Manuela Kos from the AIT chaired the session at the conference and Sebastian Ramacher presented two papers resulting from the work on QCI-CAT. With this, QCI-CAT […]

Imagine 23

On June, 15th, the team of QCI-CAT represented the project at the Imagine23 event with a strong support of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK), the organizers of this event, and the Austrian Research Promotion Agency. Imagine 23 showcases the outstanding projects and researchers we have in Austria […]

Boost for the Quantum Internet

QCI-CAT partner University of Innsbruck published a paper in which they describe the success of demonstrating a quantum repeater node at telecom wavelengths. This finding has huge potential for realizing the so-called quantum internet and quantum key distribution over long distances (up to 800km, which would allow an entanglement distribution from Vienna to Innsbruck). The […]

QKD Demo at the Ministry of Climate

Together with X-Net and the BMK, we succeeded to demonstrate a quantum secure chat between the AIT and the ministry. On February 23, 2023, the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and consortium partner X-Net Services GmbH, together with the Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK), demonstrated the future of […]