Objectives
QuantPrivTel – Quantum Private Telecommunications was a research project that joined the theoretical expertise of the Physics of Information Group (Phys-Info) and of the Security and Quantum Information Group (SQIG) at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) in Lisbon, and the skills in quantum optics experiments of the Optical Communications group (OC-Av) at IT Aveiro, to tackle new challenges in the emergent and multidisciplinary area of quantum private telecommunications. Its main scientific objectives were:
1. To propose new quantum protocols for important problems of privacy in telecommunications that could not be solved with the now-famous quantum key distribution, namely the authentication of classical messages with enhanced security and fair contract signing;
2. To develop and implement efficient methods to generate and detect single photons in optical fibers, as well as pairs of entangled photons, and to use them to demonstrate in the laboratory our original quantum protocols for message authentication and fair contract signing.
Furthermore, project QuantPrivTel aimed at training local scientists and students in this novel area of quantum private telecommunications, as well as establishing collaboration links with the existing international community. Finally, project QuantPrivTel included an outreach component, to disseminate this field and the project results to society.
1. To propose new quantum protocols for important problems of privacy in telecommunications that could not be solved with the now-famous quantum key distribution, namely the authentication of classical messages with enhanced security and fair contract signing;
2. To develop and implement efficient methods to generate and detect single photons in optical fibers, as well as pairs of entangled photons, and to use them to demonstrate in the laboratory our original quantum protocols for message authentication and fair contract signing.
Furthermore, project QuantPrivTel aimed at training local scientists and students in this novel area of quantum private telecommunications, as well as establishing collaboration links with the existing international community. Finally, project QuantPrivTel included an outreach component, to disseminate this field and the project results to society.
