Second General Assembly in Linz

Yesterday we had the pleasure to meet for the second general assembly of 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 cases secured with quantum-resistant cryptography.

Thanks to for hosting us at Wissensturm and to all the members of the consortium for joining as in Linz and online.

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.