Proves fidelity of private communication codes decays exponentially above channel capacity for all degradable quantum channels, establishing exponential strong converse with single joint infidelity criterion.

Proves fidelity of private communication codes decays exponentially above channel capacity for all degradable quantum channels, establishing exponential strong converse with single joint infidelity criterion.
Constructs efficient one-time memory using BB84 states in CAROM, achieving exponential security against quantum adversaries with classical oracle queries. Addresses limitations of NISQ-based assumptions for early fault-tolerant quantum computers.
Method for converting classical free-space optical link budgets to certified finite-key lengths using decoy-state BB84, enabling deployment across satellite, drone, HAP, and terrestrial quantum key distribution systems with explicit security bounds.
Quantum communication enables surprising failure of parallel repetition in games: a quantum game unwinnable in single instance can be perfectly won when repeated, as parallel copies provide additional entanglement resources exploitable across rounds.
Establishes exact data-processing region for quantum conditional Rényi entropies, proving conjectured sharpness of parameter constraints and proving rigidity of entropic duality relations through novel transfer principles and test-state methods.
Nanjing University demonstrates asynchronous measurement-device-independent quantum cryptography connecting three users, achieving 59.6 dB loss tolerance and improving key rates, advancing toward scalable quantum networks.
Jeongho Bang established η≃0.11 security threshold for BB84 protocol, linking PAC learning with quantum key distribution. This creates verifiable security conditions for quantum-protected machine learning within practical sample budgets.
NetSfere unveiled Federations, a federated enterprise platform using ML-KEM 1024 post-quantum encryption to secure inter-organizational communication, addressing rising vulnerabilities in cross-company messaging.
Mixed-state quantum protocols outperform classical and pure-state schemes for Rabin oblivious transfer across broader parameter ranges, advancing quantum cryptographic primitives.
GAO audit reveals 24 major federal agencies lack adequate preparation for quantum threats to cryptography, with critical skills gaps delaying post-quantum cryptography implementation and federal system resilience.
Saudi Arabia's central bank (SAMA) requires financial institutions to assess quantum computing threats to encryption and develop post-quantum cryptography readiness strategies.
Zumo and Quantum Chain launched a partnership to provide quantum-resistant financial infrastructure for UK institutions, combining quantum-secure blockchain technology with digital asset management to address future quantum computing threats.
Researchers construct succinct arguments for QMA directly from ideal hash functions, solving a major open problem and showing quantum cryptographic primitives don't require special structured assumptions.
Novel restricted quantum computation model enables secure public quantum computers by limiting cryptanalytic power while preserving scientific utility through randomized inputs and single-bit outputs.
Establishes matching finite-blocklength bounds and derives capacity min{ϵ,1−ϵ} for quantum-state oblivious transfer over quantum erasure channels with rigorous information-theoretic security proofs in both honest and adversarial settings.
Quantum time-lock puzzles now possible: using BB84 states, we achieve polylogarithmic generation time and T-round solving with security against polynomial-width quantum adversaries—resolving a 15-year-old open problem.
This work proves parallel repetition reduces soundness error at tight rates for all interactive arguments under homomorphic encryption, even against quantum provers. It enables constant-round succinct quantum argument constructions.
Quantum protocol achieves optimal-rate certified randomness without requiring verifier randomness, advancing near-term quantum applications like randomness beacons with unconditional security proofs in the quantum random oracle model.
Proves parallel Kac's walk achieves rapid mixing on Stiefel manifolds in O((k+log d)log(d/ε)) steps, extending results from single quantum states to multiple orthonormal states with applications to quantum cryptography and pseudorandom unitaries.
Framework for zero-knowledge certification of shared entangled states in quantum networks achieving information-theoretic security independent of computational power, extending cryptographic primitives to multiparty distributed quantum settings.