Quantum hacking lab. Breaking quantum cryptography

Quantum hacking lab

News

February 2023. Out of 592 papers allegedly published by Canadian scientists in collaboration with NUDT in China over the past two decades, The Globe and Mail singled out our laser damage of optical attenuators as an example of Canadian research excellence leaking to the China’s army. We had lots of laughs. This was not a collaboration between Canada and China. The journalists need to understand how affiliations appear in papers, before they make such claims.
October 2022. A PhD position is open in our lab.
December 2021. The MSc thesis of our PhD student Daniil Trefilov has won the third place in the annual contest of student research in technical sciences and applied math at the Higher School of Economics.
12 October 2021. A nanosatellite has been deployed in orbit to test laser annealing of single-photon detectors that should heal their radiation damage in space.
Update: unfortunately, strong solar flares in October–November killed the nanosat’s computer. So no results. However another mission will test the annealing technology soon.

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Our research

The main direction of research for the Quantum hacking lab is testing practical security of quantum communication systems, finding and demonstrating new loopholes, and helping to develop and test countermeasures. For example, quantum cryptography is absolutely secure in theory. However, practical implementations often deviate from the theory description, which leaves loopholes for eavesdropping. By openly publishing all our results, we ensure hardening of quantum communication technology against all possible attacks. This work will also contribute to certification standards for quantum communication equipment.

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