Date and time are shown in: Ottawa, Canada
Tutorial Speaker Mathieu Bozzio is now scheduled on Monday August 24, 9:15 am. Tutorial Speaker Ivan Šupić is scheduled on Wednesday August 26, 9:00 am.

Program

Monday, August 24, 2026

0815 08:15–09:00
0900 09:00–09:15

Welcoming Speech

Program
Professor Anne Broadbent, University of Ottawa, Chair of QCrypt 2026
Alexandre Poulain, Associate Vice-President, Innovation, Partnerships & Entrepreneurship (interim), and Professor at University of Ottawa
Megan Dewar, Director, Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing
Professor Connor Kupchak, Carleton University, Member of QCrypt 2026 LOC
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
0915 09:15–10:30

Tutorial Talk: Quantum cryptography beyond QKD: advances and practical challenges

Tutorial
Mathieu Bozzio
University of Vienna
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1030 10:30–11:00

Coffee Break

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 105
1100 11:00–11:45

Invited Talk: Quantum statistics in the minimal Bell scenario

Invited
Jean-Daniel Bancal
Institut de Physique Théorique Saclay
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1145 11:45–12:30

Invited Talk: Less is More: On Copy Complexity in Quantum Cryptography

Invited
Eli Goldin
New York University
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1230 12:30–14:00

Lunch at CRX

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Dining Hall
1400 14:00–14:20

Contributed Talk: #63 Compressed Permutation Oracles

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1420 14:20–14:40

Contributed Talk: #22 The Sponge is Quantum Indifferentiable

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1440 14:40–15:00

Contributed Talk: #74 Post-quantum security of block cipher constructions

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1500 15:00–15:20

Contributed Talk: #18 Quantum Oracle Distribution Switching and its Applications to Fully Anonymous Ring Signatures

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1520 15:20–15:50

Coffee Break

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 105
1550 15:50–16:10

Contributed Talk: #33 Rethinking quantum smooth entropies: Tight one-shot analysis of quantum privacy amplification

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1610 16:10–16:30

Contributed Talk: #7 A rigorous and complete security proof of decoy-state BB84 quantum key distribution

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1630 16:30–16:50

Contributed Talk: #95 Rigorous phase-error-estimation security framework for QKD with correlated sources

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1650 16:50–17:10

Contributed Talk: #128 Simplified quantum key distribution implementation secure against state preparation flaws

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1710 17:10–17:30

Contributed Talk: #43 Unconditional Authentication in Quantum Key Distribution via Hybrid Entangled Physical Unclonable Functions

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1730 17:30–17:50

Contributed Talk: #24 QKD Oracles for Authenticated Key Exchange

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1750 17:50–19:20

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

0815 08:15–08:55
0855 08:55–09:00

Updates & Announcements

Program
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
0900 09:00–10:15

Tutorial Talk: Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution

Tutorial
Tobias Gehring
Technical University of Denmark
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1015 10:15–10:45

Coffee Break

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 105
1045 10:45–11:30

Invited Talk: Quantum communication takes to the skies

Invited
Paul G. Kwiat
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1130 11:30–12:15

Invited Talk: Quantum communication with ultrafast time-Bin encoding

Invited
Duncan England
National Research Council of Canada
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1215 12:15–12:30

Group Photo

Program
Meet the volunteers in the CRX lobby. They will escort you to the University Square.
1230 12:30–14:00

Lunch at CRX

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Dining Hall
1400 14:00–14:20

Contributed Talk: #19 Quantification of the energy consumption of entanglement distribution

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1420 14:20–14:40

Contributed Talk: #8/#100 Uncloneable encryption from decoupling / The uncloneable bit exists

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1440 14:40–15:00

Contributed Talk: #62 Multi-Copy Security in Quantum Cryptography and More

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1500 15:00–15:20

Contributed Talk: #52 Towards Universal Quantum Tamper Detection

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1520 15:20–15:50

Coffee Break

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 105
1550 15:50–16:10

Contributed Talk: #139 Proofs of Quantum Memory

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1610 16:10–16:30

Contributed Talk: #14 Hierarchical generation and design of tree-codes for resource-efficient loss-tolerant quantum communications

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1630 16:30–16:50

Contributed Talk: #89 Reference-beam attacks against OIL-based Twin-Field QKD

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1650 16:50–17:10

Contributed Talk: #69 Continuous-variable quantum communication over hybrid channels

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1710 17:10–17:30

Contributed Talk: #101 High-Performance Laser Written Heterodyne Receiver for Photonic Quantum Information Processing

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1730 17:30–17:50

Contributed Talk: #65 Chip-based Long-distance Twin-field Quantum Key Distribution Networks

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1810 18:10–19:40

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

0815 08:15–08:55
0855 08:55–09:00

Updates & Announcements

Program
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
0900 09:00–10:15

Tutorial Talk: Self-testing in quantum cryptography

Tutorial
Ivan Šupić
LIG - CNRS/Université Grenoble Alpes
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1015 10:15–10:45

Coffee Break

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 105
1045 10:45–11:30

Invited Talk: Relativistic Position Verification with Coherent States

Invited
Guan-Jie Fan-Yuan
University of Science and Technology of China
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1130 11:30–12:15

Invited Talk: Free-Space Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution

Invited
Yu-Huai Li
University of Science and Technology of China
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1215 12:15–13:00

Lunch Boxes

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 105
1300 13:00–19:00

Thursday, August 27, 2026

0815 08:15–08:55
0855 08:55–09:00

Updates & Announcements

Program
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
0900 09:00–10:15

Tutorial Talk: Security Proofs for Quantum Key Distribution

Tutorial
Ramona Wolf
University of Innsbruck
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1015 10:15–10:45

Coffee Break

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 105
1045 10:45–11:30

Invited Talk: Private Proofs of When and Where

Invited
Tal Malkin
Columbia University
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1130 11:30–12:15

Invited Talk: On obfuscating quantum computation

Invited
Mi-Ying Miryam Huang
University of Southern California
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1215 12:15–13:45

Lunch at CRX

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Dining Hall
1345 13:45–14:05

Contributed Talk: #21 Quantitative quantum soundness for all multipartite compiled nonlocal games

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1405 14:05–14:25

Contributed Talk: #108 Reliable Entropy Estimation for device-independent QKD based on Layer-Cake Representations of Divergences

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1425 14:25–14:45

Contributed Talk: #109 QKD with local self-testing: device-independent security and device-dependent performance

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1445 14:45–15:05

Contributed Talk: #131 Robust One-Sided Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution via High-Dimensional Steering

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1505 15:05–15:35

Coffee Break

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 105
1535 15:35–17:15

Industry Panel: Quantum Satellite Infrastructure and Applications

Program
Johanna Sepulveda, Andrew Csizmar, Makan Mohageg, Steve Montminy
Airbus, Honeywell Aerospace, Boeing Co, Canadian Space Agency
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1715 17:15–17:45

Open discussion about the current and future editions of QCrypt

Program
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1800 18:00–21:30

Friday, August 28, 2026

0815 08:15–08:55
0855 08:55–09:00

Updates & Announcements

Program
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
0900 09:00–09:20

Contributed Talk: #3 Comparing classical and quantum conditional disclosure of secrets

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
0920 09:20–09:40

Contributed Talk: #44 Security of the Fischlin Transform in the Quantum Random Oracle Model

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
0940 09:40–10:00

Contributed Talk: #48 Composable Verification in the Circuit-Model via Magic-Blindness

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1000 10:00–10:20

Contributed Talk: #64 Non Interactive MPC, (Quantumly) Revisited

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1020 10:20–11:20

Hot Topics Meeting

Program
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1120 11:20–11:50

Coffee Break

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 105
1150 11:50–12:10

Contributed Talk: #15 On Removing Interaction from Quantum Proofs

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1210 12:10–12:30

Contributed Talk: #78 Hybrid Quantum Cryptography from Communication Complexity: From Theory to Experimental benchmarking

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1230 12:30–12:50

Contributed Talk: #61 How to Delete Without a Trace: Certified Deniability in a Quantum World

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1250 12:50–13:10

Contributed Talk: #113 Quantum-Secure Private Inference from Vacuum Fluctuations

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1310 13:10–13:30

Closing Remarks

Program
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
Note: The program may be subject to minor changes. Please check this page for updates.