The work package on Secure communications and verification has been extended to include secure computation which was formerly part of the work package on hybrid quantum/classical computing. The resulting work package is now entitled Secure Network Applications.

This work package is concerned with secure communications and computation over networks, and protecting against potentially malicious parties. Tasks of this flavour include quantum key distribution for communication that is secure against any eavesdropper; blind quantum computing, where a client contracts a server to perform some quantum computation for them, without allowing them to learn the desired computation, or the input; other functions useful for cryptography, such as efficient and certifiable quantum random number generation, numbers that by their very nature can never be predicted.

Key tasks of work package 5 include: to develop schemes for device independent QKD and to develop verification techniques for the Q20:20 demonstrator.

Read more about our Secure Network Applications work.