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 […]

Kick-Off Meeting

At our Kick-Off meeting at the beginning of March 2023, the consortium had a first chance to meet in person and discuss details to QCI-CAT. Each partner presented their company and their contribution to the project, project details and timelines have been discussed and within a fruitful thematic group work, some challenges within the project […]