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The summer 2026 program of CryptoWorks21 is now accepting participants.

We are delighted to announce that Devashish Tupkary, a graduate student in Professor Norbert Lütkenhaus’s research group at the University of Waterloo, has received the CryptoWorks21 Best Paper Award!

Devashish played a leading role in developing security proof framework for variable-length quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols. This work addresses critical limitations of traditional fixed-length approaches and paves the way for practical applications such as ground-to-satellite QKD, marking a major advancement in secure quantum communication.

Congratulations, Devashish, on this well-deserved recognition! 

The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is opening a cyber security lab and investing $1.78 million into research at the University of Waterloo to develop advanced cybersecurity and privacy tools, announced January 29, 2018.