Recent developments in quantum cryptography

摘要

Christian Schaffner is a NWO Vidi Laureate and assistant professor at the ILLC at UvA, where he works on quantum cryptography. Quantum cryptography is the art and science of exploiting quantum mechanical effects in order to perform cryptographic tasks. Recent progress in building quantum computers has led to new opportunities for cryptography, but also endangers existing cryptographic schemes. In this article Schaffner surveys both aspects of this double-edged sword.