IQC hosted an internal Qcrypto workshop on Thursday February 22, 2007, organized by Dr. Norbert Lütkenhaus. 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