The 5th LFPPI Symposium on Progress in Quantum Cryptography

The cyclic LFPPI symposia are rather a small scale events addressed to progress in quantum physics, traditionally honored by distinguished invited speakers (in the past the symposium was honored by the presence of: prof. Artur Ekert, prof. Christopher Fuchs, prof. Gerard t'Hooft).

The 5th LFPPI Symposium on QKD will take only two days, but will create a not very common opportunity to present and discuss scientific and technological progress in quantum cryptography and related fields of quantum information and communication in both scientific and practical applied contexts, while bringing together quantum physicists (including quantum cryptography authors and experts), computer scientists (including classical IT security experts) and also representatives of the industry interested in quantum cryptography practical applications and deployments.

Focus of the symposium

The symposium is planned in two overlapping planes of scientific and deployment industrial perspectives, as well as two overlapping planes of quantum and classical research communities (quantum physicists and applied computer scientists).

The symposium will focus on:

• In scientific context, it will have a goal to present and discuss state-of-the-art scientific progress in quantum cryptography and related fields of quantum information and communication
  • It will include invited lectures on quantum cryptography by:
    • Prof. Nicolas Gisin, University of Geneva, ID Quantique SA (pioneer in experimental QKD research and development, co-author of SARG04 QKD protocol)
    • Prof. Artur Ekert, Director of Center for Quantum Technologies Singapore (author of entanglement based QKD concept, author of E91 QKD protocol)
    • Prof. Vadim Makarov, Head of Quantum Hacking Laboratory within University of Waterloo (pioneer in experimental QKD systems hacking, author of blinding attack on SPD implementations)
    • Prof. Marek Kuś, Head of Scientific Council of the National Quantum Information Center in Gdansk, Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw (contribution to theory of entanglement and quantum chaos)
• In application / IT industry context, it will aim to evaluate technological developments of practical and commercial quantum cryptography technologies and related products integration with current IT systems
  • It will bring together developers of the currently most advanced QKD systems
    • IdQuantique SA (Switzerland) [not confirmed yet]
    • MagiQ Inc. (USA) [confirmed]
    • Austrain Institute of Technology AIT (Austria) [confirmed]
    • SeQureNet SA (France) [confirmed]
    • Toshiba (Japan/UK) [not confirmed yet]
    • NTT (Japan) [confirmed]
  • It will showcase and demonstrate operation of current state of the art QKD systems
  • It will offer short QKD training programme integrated into the symposium for interested participants combined with issuing of relevant training certifications
• And above all it will provoke discussion on quantum cryptography prospects between quantum physicists and computer scientists as well as industry representatives (including applied IT security professionals and representatives of targeted sectors potentially interested with quantum cryptography future deployments: i.e. mainly from financial sector, public administration and government)

The Symposium will present both the scientific and application prospects of quantum cryptography in view of progress of quantum computers, aiming to bring together academic societies of physicists, computer scientists, and representatives of industry considering quantum cryptography and is organized on the occasion of Wroclaw metropolitan QKD network deployment based on experimental non-entanglement & entanglement QKD systems. During the symposium a practical demonstration of QKD systems by leading companies addressed to industry and security sector of finance and administration is planned. We hope to elevate the interest and commercial/business support for QKD system development from the side of bank and administration representatives invited to participate in this Symposium.

CMQCRD (Consortium for Monitoring of Quantum Cryptography Research and Developement)

During the symposium it is planned establishment of the Consortium for Monitoring of Quantum Cryptography Resarch and Developement (CMQCRD), a national consortium of representatives of scientific institutes, commercial partners, finance and administration institutions interested in development and deployment of quantum cryptography secure solutions for commercial and special use communication systems. The consortium will monitor international progress in the field of quantum information and communication technologies research and development, especially towards adoption of quantum cryptography and promote national Polish endeavour in related areas. The consortium would include institutional founding members of:

• LFPPI national scientific network
• NLTK national quantum laboratories network

• Representatives of the Institute of Physics, Institute of Informatics and Department of Signal Theory, of Wroclaw University of Technology
• Representatives of Polish public Universities and Academy Institutes
• Representatives of commercial partners
• Representatives of finance and administration sectors institutions