Fiona :transbian: :autism:<p>The paper I co-authored (“A Critical Analysis of Deployed Use Cases for Quantum Key Distribution and Comparison with Post-Quantum Cryptography”) was accepted for publication by “EPJ Quantum Technology” today. 😊<span><br><br></span><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/173" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">You can find the preprint here</a><span>, Nick will eventually update it with the final changes.<br><br>In short: We looked into existing use-cases for </span><a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/QuantumKeyDistribution" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QuantumKeyDistribution</a><span> and whether they make any sense and did so as a joint team between people with a QKD-background and cryptographers who started out very critical of QKD. (I’m firmly in the latter camp.)<br><br>My personal summary (though some of my co-authors won’t share it to this extend): </span><a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/QKD" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QKD</a><span> is bullshit and not useful for practical purposes as it stands.<br><br></span><a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/crypto" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crypto</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/cryptography" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cryptography</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/cryptology" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cryptology</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/postquantumcrypto" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postquantumcrypto</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/PQC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PQC</a></p>