Keynote Speakers
Speaker: Dr. Anindita Banerjee, Quantum security specialist, QuNu Labs Pvt Ltd, India
Title of Talk: Security of Quantum Cryptography
Biography: Dr Anindita Banerjee received her PhD from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT), Noida. She was Assistant Prof. in Women College of Engineering, Durgapur. Later she joined as Research Associate in Bose Institute, Kolkata. She was awarded CSIR Pool Officer at Bose Institute. She has co-authored a book on Optical quantum computation and quantum communication published in SPIE Spotlight Series. At present she is working as Quantum security scientist at QuNu Labs Pvt Ltd. which focuses on quantum safe solutions for cryptographic primitives. She has contributed enormously to build the state of art products like Quantum key distribution system and quantum random number generators. Her research interest includes quantum cryptography, quantum optics, quantum computing and reversible computation.
Talk description: Quantum cryptography is one of the most mature area of quantum information. In the past few decades, active research took place towards standardizing quantum key distribution. This resulted in hardening of theoretical proofs for a robust implementation against realistic attacks on QKD system which was executed by exploiting the security loopholes. On one hand many hacking strategies of the source, link, and detection system have been demonstrated. This paved way to the development of robust engineering QKD product. The emphasis of this paper is twofold, on one hand it brings forth the newer security techniques paving way for information-theoretic security proofs of comparatively newer QKD protocols leading to high QKD performance for market deployment, on the other hand, it discusses the recent quantum hacking on different QKD systems which has led to the strengthening of the QKD system and enabled active monitoring against possible eavesdropping activities.