Internal IQC-Qcrypto Workshop

Friday, February 23, 2007

IQC hosted an internal Qcrypto workshop on Thursday February 22, 2007, organized by . The workshop brought together IQC members working on Qcrypto for discussion of current research projects.

10:00-10:15 Chris Erven "The QKD set up at IQC using Parametric Downconversion"

10:15-10:30 Debbie Leung "Locking Information and Composability of QKD"

10:30-10:45 Douglas Stebila "Cryptographic Protocols on a trusted repeater network"

10:45-11:00 Geir Ove Myhr "Public Discussion Protocols in QKD & symmetric extendibility"

11:00-11:15 Norbert Lütkenhaus "Security Analysis of Differential phase-shift QKD"

11:15-11:30 Hauke Häseler "Entanglement Verification and secure QKD with Continuous Variables"

11:30-11:45 Jamie Sikora "Applications of Semidefinite Programming to Quantum Coin-Flipping"

11:45-12:00 Jean Christian Boileau "Equivalence Between Unconditional Security Proofs for QKD"

12:00-13:00 Working Lunch

13:00-13:15 Kevin Resch "Generalized Measurements in Linear Optical Implementation"

13:15-13:30 Matthew McKague "Self-testing devices"

13:30-13:45 Matthias Heid "Performance of Continuous Variable QKD"

13:45-14:00 Mohsen Razavi "Quantum Memories in Quantum Repeaters: Figures of Merit"

14:00-14:15 Niel de Beaudrap "Quantum lattice self-reductions and applications to Quantum resistant classical Cryptography"

14:15-14:30 Hamed Majedi "Superconducting Single Photon Optical Detector"

14:30-14:45 Tobias Moroder "Detector Decoy in QKD"

14:45-15:00 Yi-Bo Zhao "Optimal Eavesdropping in Continuous Variable QKD"

15:00-15:30 Open Discussion about possible directions, collaborations, ideas