Report on QKD Inte­gra­ti­on and Eaves­drop­ping

In col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with the Natio­nal Insti­tu­te of Optics (CNR-INO), Quan­tum Tele­com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons Ita­ly (QTI) orga­ni­zed a SQuaD work­shop on Quan­tum Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on on 28 Febru­ary 2024 with the aim of sha­ring infor­ma­ti­on on the cur­rent sta­tus of the inte­gra­ti­on of QCom into the exis­ting tele­com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons infra­struc­tu­re and the chal­lenges rela­ted to the vul­nerabi­li­ties in the imple­men­ta­ti­on of QKD sys­tems. This work­shop, orga­ni­zed by the Quan­tum Busi­ness Net­work (QBN), took place in Flo­rence. At Vil­la Il Gioiel­lo, the his­to­ric home of Gali­leo Gali­lei, 50 par­ti­ci­pan­ts gathe­red to dis­cuss the latest deve­lo­p­ments and chal­lenges facing Qcom.
The insights and recom­men­da­ti­ons from the work­shop have now been com­pi­led in a report and will be fur­ther explo­red in upco­ming SQuaD work­shops and the QBN Working Group on Quan­tum Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons & Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty, ensu­ring con­tin­ued pro­gress and col­la­bo­ra­ti­ve solu­ti­ons in this cri­ti­cal area.

Source refe­rence: https://qbn.world/tackling-challenges-in-qkd-integration-and-eavesdropping-insights-and-recommendations-from-the-squad-workshop/