QSNS 2025: Cybersecurity challenges in the Quantum Era
The Second Workshop on Quantum-Secure Networks and Systems (QSNS2025)
QSNS 2025: Cybersecurity challenges in the Quantum Era The Second Workshop on Quantum-Secure Networks and Systems (QSNS2025) took place from July 2 to 5, 2025, in Bologna, Italy, alongside the 30th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications. Once again was organised as a joint effort between the QUBIP and PQ-REACT EU projects, which are also shaping the SPQR cluster.
The event, which took place on July 2nd and was attended by more than thirty attendees spanning from various backgrounds and expertise, focused on addressing critical cybersecurity challenges of the quantum era. With an engineering perspective, the workshop contributed to the broader global effort towards an agile, post-quantum or post-quantum/traditional hybrid and standards-based transition to PQC of the digital infrastructures that support today’s digital activities.
To introduce the workshop and its main objectives, topics such as Optimising Secure Elements Implementation Methods for a Seamless Post-Quantum Transition, PQ-CAN: a Framework for Simulating Post-Quantum Cryptography in Embedded Systems, Towards Quantum-Resistant Trusted Computing: Architectures for Post-Quantum Integrity Verification Techniques and A Quantum-Safe Implementation of the NETCONF Protocol were thoroughly presented and discussed.
The afternoon was also full of talks, with topics ranging from Hybrid PQ/T signatures and Post-Quantum Anonymous Credentials framework to Onion Routing Key Distribution, QKD-KEM and Study for LLL and BKZ with Application. PQ-REACT’s work was presented through the slot “A Parameter Study for LLL and BKZ with Application to Shortest Vector Problems” based on the relevant paper written by T. Koeppl, R. Zander, L. Henkel, and N. Tcholtchev. It was a pleasure for the PQ-REACT project to contribute to and co-host the QSNS 2025 workshop. Through such collaborative efforts, we aim to support a secure transition to the quantum era and deliver impactful results.
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