Środowiskowe Seminarium z Informacji i Technologii Kwantowych

The history of cryptography is a history of failures. Stronger ciphersreplaced broken ones, to be in turn broken again. Quantum cryptographyoffers a hope to end this replacement cycle, for its security premises on the laws of physics and not on limitations of human ingenuity andcomputing power. I will tell about ongoing deployment of quantumcryptography networks using fiber-optic and satellite links, and effortsto certify their implementation as secure. [Prof. Vadim Makarov heads the Quantum hacking lab http://www.vad1.com/lab/at the Russian Quantum Center, Moscow, where he tests commercial quantumcryptography systems for implementation loopholes.]