QCRYPT

QCRYPT · 2021

Amsterdam, Netherlands · virtual


41
talks
0
posters
31
regular papers
6
invited talks
2
awards
182
unique authors
63
committee members

Announced at the business meeting

figures as reported by the chairs · 2021-08-26 — may differ from the computed counts above

137
talk submissions
29
talks accepted
23.0%
acceptance rate
141
posters accepted

slides business meeting slides ↗

talk_submissions: versus ~100 in a typical year talks_accepted: including 2 merges

Programme

Title Type Date Min Authors Award
Quantum Oblivious Transfer from One-way Functions invited 2021-08-23 14:45 Dakshita Khurana
On the Compressed-Oracle Technique, and Post-Quantum Security of Proofs of Sequential Work regular 2021-08-23 16:00 Kai-Min Chung, Serge Fehr, Yu-Hsuan Huang, Tai-Ning Liao
On the Round Complexity of Secure Quantum Computation regular 2021-08-23 16:00 James Bartusek, Andrea Coladangelo, Dakshita Khurana, Fermi Ma
Post-Quantum Succinct Arguments regular 2021-08-23 16:00 Alessandro Chiesa, Fermi Ma, Nicholas Spooner, Mark L. Zhandry
Tutorial Vazirani: Classical proofs of quantumness tutorial 2021-08-23 16:45 Umesh Vazirani
An optomechanical quantum memory invited 2021-08-24 11:00 Simon Gröblacher
Security analysis of practical QKD tutorial 2021-08-24 12:15 Charles Lim
Experimental Gaussian-modulated continuous-variable quantum key distribution with composable keys regular 2021-08-24 14:00 Nitin Jain, Hou-Man Chin, Hossein Mani, Dino Solar Nikolic, Cosmo Lupo, Stefano Pirandola, Matthias Kolb, Christoph Pacher, Ulrik L. Andersen, Tobias Gehring
Explicit asymptotic secret key rate of continuous-variable quantum key distribution with an arbitrary modulation regular 2021-08-24 14:00 Aurélie Denys, Peter Brown, Anthony Leverrier
QKD Attack Rating: Prioritizing is the key to Practical Security regular 2021-08-24 14:00 Rupesh Kumar, Francesco Mazzoncini, Hao Qin, Romain Alléaume
Device-independent protocols from computational assumptions regular 2021-08-24 14:45 Tony Metger, Yfke Dulek, Andrea Coladangelo, Rotem Arnon-Friedman, Thomas Vidick Best Student Paper Award (Theory) — Tony Metger
Finite-size DIQKD with noisy preprocessing and random key measurements regular 2021-08-24 14:45 Ernest Y.-Z. Tan, Xavier Valcarce, Pavel Sekatski, Jean-Daniel Bancal, René Schwonnek, Renato Renner, Nicolas Sangouard, Charles C.-W. Lim
Privacy amplification and decoupling without smoothing regular 2021-08-24 14:45 Frédéric Dupuis
Device-independent lower bounds on the conditional von Neumann entropy regular 2021-08-25 13:00 Peter Brown, Hamza Fawzi, Omar Fawzi
Quantum conference key agreement using photonic graph state regular 2021-08-25 13:00 Joseph Ho, Alex Pickston, Francesco Graffitti, Federico Grasselli, Chris L Morrison, Massimiliano Proietti, Andres Ulibarrena, Alessandro Fedrizzi
The asymptotic performance of coherent-one-way quantum key distribution regular 2021-08-25 13:00 Róbert Trényi, Marcos Curty
Drone-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) regular 2021-08-25 13:45 Andrew Conrad, Samantha Isaac, Roderick Cochran, Daniel Sanchez-Rosales, Akash Gutha, Tahereh Rezaei, Brian Wilens, Daniel J. Gauthier, Paul Kwiat
MDI-QKD with 19.2 km free-space channel regular 2021-08-25 13:45 Yuan Cao, Yu-Huai Li, Kui-Xing Yang, Yang-Fan Jiang, Shuang-Lin Li, Xiao-Long Hu, Maimaiti Abulizi, Cheng-Long Li, Weijun Zhang, Qi-Chao Sun, Wei-Yue Liu, Xiao Jiang, Sheng-Kai Liao, Ji-Gang Ren, Hao Li, Lixing You, Zhen Wang, Juan Yin, Chao-Yang Lu, Xiang-Bin Wang, Qiang Zhang, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Jian-Wei Pan
Medical Data Protection in transit and at rest during the OpenQKD testbed operation in Graz regular 2021-08-25 13:45 Hannes Hübel, Andreas Poppe, Florian Kutschera, Werner Strasser, Bernhard Zatoukal, Kurt Zatloukal, Heimo Müller, Sigurd Lax
Pathways for entanglement based quantum communication in the face of high noise regular 2021-08-25 13:45 Xiao-Min Hu, Chao Zhang, Yu Guo, Fang-Xiang Wang, Wen-Bo Xing, Cen-Xiao Huang, Bi-Heng Liu, Yun-Feng Huang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, Xiaoqin Gao, Matej Pivoluska, Marcus Huber
Security Proofs for QKD Protocols in Infinite Dimensions invited 2021-08-25 14:45 Twesh Upadhyaya
Discrete-variable quantum key distribution using conjugate homodyne detection invited 2021-08-25 16:00 Bing Qi
Experimental repeater-like quantum communications over 600 km of optical fibre with dual-band phase stabilisation invited 2021-08-26 13:15 Mirko Pittaluga
Quantum Uncloneability tutorial 2021-08-26 15:30 Anne Broadbent
A Black-Box Approach to Post-Quantum Zero-Knowledge in Constant Rounds regular 2021-08-27 11:00 Nai-Hui Chia, Kai-Min Chung, Takashi Yamakawa
On the Impossibility of Post-Quantum Black-Box Zero-Knowledge in Constant Rounds regular 2021-08-27 11:00 Nai-Hui Chia, Kai-Min Chung, Qipeng Liu, Takashi Yamakawa
Position-based cryptography: Single-qubit protocol secure against multi-qubit attacks regular 2021-08-27 11:00 Andreas Bluhm, Matthias Christandl, Florian Speelman
Post-quantum Resettably-Sound Zero Knowledge regular 2021-08-27 11:00 Nir Bitansky, Michael Kellner, Omri Shmueli
Coexistence of a Quantum QKD Channel and 4×100 Gbps Classical Channels in Nested Antiresonant Nodeless Hollow Core Fibre regular 2021-08-27 11:45 Obada Alia, Rodrigo Stange Tessinari, Thomas Bradley, Hesham Sakr, Kerrianne Harrington, John Hayes, Yong Chen, Periklis Petropoulos, George Kanellos, David Richardson, Francesco Poletti, Reza Najebati, Dimitra simidunio
Finite key effects in satellite quantum key distribution regular 2021-08-27 11:45 Jasminder S. Sidhu, Thomas Brougham, Duncan McArthur, Roberto G. Pousa, Daniel K. L. Oi
Minimizing detection losses from time-bin quantum cryptography systems with few-mode fibre technology regular 2021-08-27 11:45 Alvaro Alarcon, Joakim Argillander, Gustavo Lima, Guilherme Xavier
The limits of multiplexing of quantum and classical channels: Case study of a 2.5 GHz discrete variable QKD system regular 2021-08-27 11:45 Fadri Grünenfelder, Rebecka Sax, Alberto Boaron, Hugo Zbinden
There's Plenty of Room.. out in Space for QKD! tutorial 2021-08-27 12:45 Paolo Villoresi
Practical long distance twin-field quantum key distribution through sending-or-not-sending invited 2021-08-27 14:30 Xiang-Bin Wang
High-rate quantum key distribution with silicon photonics regular 2021-08-27 15:45 Likang Zhang, Wei Li, Hao Tan, Yan-Lin Tang, Kejin Wei, Sheng-Kai Liao, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Feihu Xu, Jian-Wei Pan Best Student Paper Award (Experiment) — Likang Zhang
Realizing an entanglement-based multi-user quantum network with integrated photonics regular 2021-08-27 15:45 Wenjun Wen, Zhiyu Chen, Liangliang Lu, Wenhan Yan, Peiyu zhang, Yanqing Lu, Shining Zhu, Xiao-Song Ma
System Integration of Photonic Integrated Quantum Communications Chips regular 2021-08-27 15:45 Taofiq K Paraiso, Thomas Roger, Davide Marangon, Innocenzo De Marco, Mirko Sanzaro, Robert I Woodward, James Dynes, Zhiliang Yuan, Andrew Shields
Hidden Cosets and Applications to Unclonable Cryptography regular 2021-08-27 16:30 Andrea Coladangelo, Jiahui Liu, Qipeng Liu, Mark L. Zhandry
Practical quantum tokens without quantum memories and experimental tests regular 2021-08-27 16:30 Adrian Kent, David Lowndes, Damián Pitalúa-García, John Rarity
Quantum Encryption with Certified Deletion, Revisited: Public Key, Attribute-Based, and Classical Communication regular 2021-08-27 16:30 Taiga Hiroka, Tomoyuki Morimae, Ryo Nishimaki, Takashi Yamakawa
Quantum Private Broadcasting regular 2021-08-27 16:30 Anne Broadbent, Carlos Gonzalez-Guillen, Christine Schuknecht

Committees

PC 36 members
Name Position Role Affiliation
Carl Miller chair QuICS, University of Maryland, NIST
Tobias Gehring chair DTU Physics, Technical University of Denmark
Andrea Coladangelo member University of California, Berkeley
Andreas Hülsing member Eindhoven University of Technology
Andreas Poppe member Austrian Institute of Technology
Anne Broadbent member University of Ottawa
Antonio Acin member Institute of Photonic Sciences
Charles Ci-Wen Lim member National University of Singapore
Daniel J. Gauthier member Ohio State University
Davide Bacco member Technical University of Denmark
Elham Kashefi member University of Edinburgh and LIP6 Sorbonne Universite
Erika Andersson member Heriot-Watt University
Florian Speelman member QuSoft and University of Amsterdam
George Kanellos member University of Bristol
Giuseppe Vallone member University of Padova
Ivo Degiovanni member INRIM
Jamie Sikora member Virginia Tech
Marco Tomamichel member National University of Singapore
Nino Walenta member Heinrich Hertz Institute
Paolo Villoresi member University of Padova
Roger Colbeck member University of York
Romain Alléaume member Telecom Paris
Rotem Arnon-Friedman member Weizmann Institute of Science
Rupesh Kumar member University of York
Sean Hallgren member Penn State University
Thomas Jennewein member University of Waterloo
Verónica Fernández Mármol member Spanish National Research Council
Virginia d’Auria member Institut de Physique de Nice
Vladyslav Usenko member Palacky University, Olomouc
Xiongfeng Ma member Tsinghua University
Yanbao Zhang member NTT Basic Research Lab
Yfke Dulek member QuSoft and CWI Amsterdam
Yuan Cao member University of Science and Technology of China
Yury Kurochkin member Russian Quantum Center
Zhiliang Yuan member Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences
Zvika Brakerski member Weizmann Institute of Science
SC 16 members
Name Position Role Affiliation
Christoph Marquardt chair Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Gorjan Alagic co_chair University of Maryland
Akihisa Tomita member Hokkaido University
Artur Ekert member CQT Singapore and Oxford University
Charles H. Bennett member IBM Research
Feihu Xu member University of Science and Technology of China
Gilles Brassard member Université de Montréal
Hugo Zbinden member University of Geneva
Ivan Damgård member Aarhus University
Jian-Wei Pan member University of Science and Technology of China
Marco Lucamarini member University of York
Michele Mosca member IQC, University of Waterloo
Nicolas Gisin member University of Geneva
Richard Hughes member Los Alamos National Lab
Serge Fehr member CWI Cryptology group, Leiden University
Stacey Jeffery member CWI
Local 11 members
Name Position Role Affiliation
Christian Schaffner chair General Chair University of Amsterdam ILLC, QuSoft
Serge Fehr chair General Chair CWI Cryptology group, Leiden University
Alex Grilo member CNRS/Sorbonne Université
Caitlin Boonstra member ILLC, University of Amsterdam
Esteban Landerreche member design
Jelle Don member CWI Cryptology Group
Mehrdad Tahmasbi member CWI, QuSoft
Melanie Haije member University of Amsterdam
Peter van Ormondt member ILLC, University of Amsterdam
Wessel van Woerden member CWI Cryptology Group
Yfke Dulek member CWI, QuSoft