Nit Europea de la Recerca – Berga – 2024

27 SEPTEMBER 2024

Within the framework of the European Research Night, ICFO will organize a workshop for high school students (ESO and batxillerat) on quantum cryptography in critical communications.

In a digital world like ours, where most sensitive information (financial, health, etc.) is accessible over the internet, cyber security is fundamental. Quantum cryptography, based on the properties of objects at the microscopic scale (ex. atoms and photons), promises to distribute our data in a more secure way, protecting us from possible new technologies that could change current cryptographic methods and reveal them. fins i all the presence of a spy. We will invite visitors to reproduce an optical communication system. They will be able to create a cryptographic code to send information securely and they will be able to serve it, sending light of different colors along an optical fiber.