European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the Institute for Quantum Computing are thrilled to organize the 2025 edition of the ETSI/IQC Quantum Safe Cryptography Conference.
This year, the event will be hosted physically by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) from 3 to 5 June 2025 in Madrid, Spain.
Are you active in quantum-safe cryptography?
Here is an opportunity to be part of the conference programme: The members of the programme committee are currently calling for presentations and posters, do not miss the chance to contribute with a talk (deadline - January 15), a poster (deadline - February 25) or simply save the date.
The programme committee works towards having the programme online early April. Please note that the conference is run in English and that registration will be open by the end of March.
The conference will cover the following topics:
Initiatives and deployments
- Co-ordinated global, regional or national efforts on quantum-safe schemes.
- Specific initiatives towards quantum-safety within financial, telecommunication, energy and other critical sectors.
- Insights from practical deployments of post-quantum, QKD, or other quantum-safe key establishment or authentication schemes.
- Challenges to deploying quantum-safe schemes for a given use-case.
Migration
- Migration paths and roadmaps for quantum safety and cryptographic resilience (including challenges and resolutions).
- Strategy to achieve cryptographic agility in products.
New ideas and concepts
- Innovative ideas utilising post-quantum crypto or QKD in the real-world.
- New applications of post-quantum crypto or QKD.
- Hybrid key agreement and signatures.
- System integration of QKD and post-quantum.
- Cryptanalysis and side-channel analysis of post-quantum systems/QKD.
- Other practical quantum-safe alternatives to existing cryptographic primitives (e.g. aggregate signatures) or protocols (e.g. DNSSEC, RPKI).
Standards and certification
- Standards for quantum cryptography devices and systems.
- Testing, metrics, validation and certification for quantum-safety.
- Standards for quantum-resistant public-key crypto algorithms.