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Conference abstracts

2011
V. Makarov, Cracking quantum cryptography (invited talk), presented at CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2011, Munich, Germany, May 22–26, 2011.		PDF; presentation slides: PowerPoint (13.6 MiB)
N. Jain, L. Lydersen, C. Wittmann, C. Wiechers, D. Elser, Ch. Marquardt, V. Makarov, and G. Leuchs, Inducing a detector efficiency mismatch to hack a commercial quantum key distribution system (contributed talk), presented at CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2011, Munich, Germany, May 22–26, 2011.		PDF
2009
S. Sauge, V. Makarov, and A. Anisimov, Quantum hacking: how Eve can exploit component imperfections to control yet another of Bob’s single-photon qubit detectors (contributed talk), presented at CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2009, Munich, Germany, June 14–19, 2009.		PDF
Y.-S. Kim, V. Makarov, Y.-C. Jeong, and Y.-H. Kim, Silicon single-photon detector with 5 Hz dark counts (poster), presented at CLEO/IQEC 2009, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, May 31 – June 5, 2009.		PDF
2008
L. Lydersen and J. Skaar, Security of quantum key distribution with bit and basis dependent detector flaws (poster), presented at SECOQC conference, Vienna, Austria, October 8–10, 2008.		PDF; poster: PDF
V. Makarov, A. Anisimov, and S. Sauge, Can Eve control PerkinElmer actively-quenched single-photon detector? (poster), presented at SECOQC conference, Vienna, Austria, October 8–10, 2008.		arXiv:0809.3408v1 [quant-ph]; poster: PDF (13.2 MiB)
V. Makarov, Exploiting the saturation mode of passively quenched avalanche photodiodes to attack quantum cryptosystems (contributed talk), in Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Annual Meeting 2008 (Opt. Soc. Korea, 2008), pp. 417–418.		PDF

Selected presentations

Talk “Loopholes in implementations of quantum cryptography” given by V. Makarov at QCRYPT conference, Zurich (2011): PowerPoint (14.1 MiB); ; you can watch the entire one-hour talk on the conference website or download MPEG-4 video (418 MiB).
Video abstract for our paper “After-gate attack on a quantum cryptosystem,” filmed by our German colleagues (2011): watch it on YouTube or download full-quality HD video (67 MiB).
Lecture “Attacks on implementations of quantum cryptography” given at id Quantique 3rd winter school on practical quantum cryptography (2011): PowerPoint (24.2 MiB).
Lecture “Practical attacks on QKD implementations” given at id Quantique 2nd winter school on practical quantum cryptography (2010): PowerPoint (20.3 MiB).
Presentations from the Quantum communication workshop 2010 in Oslo organized by our group.
Lecture “How you can build an eavesdropper for a quantum cryptosystem” given at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (2009): PowerPoint (4.4 MiB); you can watch the entire 52 min lecture on YouTube or download MPEG-4 video (582 MiB).
Presentation “Diagrams of states and error models in quantum information processing” given at the World congress on science, engineering and technology, Oslo (2009).
Lecture “How we eavesdropped 100% of a quantum cryptographic key” given at Hacking at Random conference (2009): PowerPoint (16.1 MiB); you can watch the entire 52 min lecture on YouTube.
Presentation “Eve strikes back: attacks exploiting component imperfections” (2008): PowerPoint (13.1 MiB) | PDF (7.2 MiB); handouts: PDF (4.5 MiB).
Poster “Faked states attack exploiting detector efficiency mismatch on BB84, phase-time, DPSK, and Ekert protocols” (2006).
Presentation “Attacks via optical loopholes” given at the Quantum information theory workshop in Erlangen (2004).
Lecture “Quantum cryptography” given in the Fiber components course at NTNU (2003).
Presentation “Quantum cryptography” given at the Norwegian cryptographic seminar (2002).

Book contributions

D. R. Hjelme, L. Lydersen, and V. Makarov,
Quantum cryptography (chapter),
in A Multidisciplinary Introduction to Information Security, edited by S. F. Mjølsnes (CRC Press, 2011).

arXiv:1108.1718 [quant-ph]

Doctoral theses: complete list

Lars Lydersen, “Practical security of quantum cryptography,” PhD thesis (2011): PDF (10.1 MiB).
Vadim Makarov, “Quantum cryptography and quantum cryptanalysis,” doktor ingeniør thesis (2007).

Master theses: complete list

Audun Nystad Bugge (to deliver thesis in 2012).
Aina Mardhiyah Mohamad Ghazali (to deliver thesis in 2012).
Ole Christian Tvedt, “Quantum key distribution prototype” (2010).
Eivind Sjøtun Simonsen, “Security of quantum key distribution source” (2010): PDF (14.1 MiB).
Magne Gudmundsen, “Improved secret key rate in quantum key distribution using highly irregular low-density parity-check codes” (2010): PDF (891 KiB).
Mikhail Ulianov, “Quantum key distribution system” (2009).
Lars Lydersen, “Security of QKD systems with detector efficiency mismatch” (2008).
Mikhail Chizhov, “Quantum cryptography systems” (2004).
Bendik Vignes, “Quantum cryptography and faked states attack on systems using active basis choice” (2004).
Alexey Brylevski, “Quantum key distribution: Real-time compensation of interferometer phase drift” (2002).
Artem Vakhitov, “Evaluation of security against unauthorized access for practical fiber-based quantum cryptosystems” (2000).
Kirill Vylegjanine, “High-speed single photon detector for quantum cryptosystems” (2000).
Torbjørn Nesheim, “Single photon detection using avalanche photodiode” (1999).

Selected student project reports

Audun Nystad Bugge, “Preparation of experiment for controlled laser damage of single-photon avalanche photodiode” (2011): PDF (2.9 MiB).
Eivind Sjøtun Simonsen, “Decoy state generator for quantum key distribution system” (2009): PDF (9.8 MiB).

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