Cryptography with self-testing quantum hardware

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Smart growth - PL - ERDF (2014PL16RFOP001), managing authority: Ministerstwo obsługujące ministra właściwego ds. rozwoju regionalnego. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Trójmiejski (NUTS PL633); Poland. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 316,882.2; EU co-financing EUR 316,882.2 (co-financing rate 100%), as stated by the source. Runs 2016-11-01 to 2020-01-31. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS). Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): Our project tackles problem which is quite old but has never been properly approached mostly due to a fact that it cannot be solved with classical means. Namely, we address the issue of trust in the manufacturers and vendors of the devices used for cryptography. In the past we had two options, either: (a) trust them; or (b) build the devices ourselves. The second option was available only to the entities which had necessary expertise and resources. A change comes with the advent of quantum technologies. Recently, first device-independent protocols were proposed. In our project we intend to turn them into practical devices. This will not only allow smaller companies to have access to the highest levels of security but also the government agencies will be able to use subcontractors without compromising their secrets.

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The project "Cryptography with self-testing quantum hardware" was co-funded by the EU with a budget of EUR 316,882.2, running from November 1, 2016, to January 31, 2020, in Trójmiejski, Poland, addressing trust issues in cryptographic devices. Suggested technology pillar: communication. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.