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most citedFast Single Photon Detectors and real-time Key Distillation: Enabling High Secret Key Rate QKD Systems

159 citations · 503 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

quant-ph2025

Reproducible Builds for Quantum Computing

Iyán Méndez Veiga, Esther Hänggi

Reproducible builds are a set of software development practices that establish an independently verifiable path from source code to binary artifacts, helping to detect and mitigate…

cs.CR2025

Reproducible Builds and Insights from an Independent Verifier for Arch Linux

Joshua Drexel, Esther Hänggi, Iyán Méndez Veiga

Supply chain attacks have emerged as a prominent cybersecurity threat in recent years. Reproducible and bootstrappable builds have the potential to reduce such attacks significantl…

quant-ph2025

Impossibility of Quantum Private Queries

Esther Hänggi, Severin Winkler

Symmetric private information retrieval is a cryptographic task allowing a user to query a database and obtain exactly one entry without revealing to the owner of the database whic…

quant-ph2024

Lower Bounds for Quantum Secure Function Evaluation Reductions

Esther Hänggi, Severin Winkler

One-sided output secure function evaluation is a cryptographic primitive where the two mutually distrustful players, Alice and Bob, both have a private input to a bivariate functio…

cs.CR2024

Security for adversarial wiretap channels

Esther Hänggi, Iyán Méndez Veiga, Ligong Wang

We consider the wiretap channel, where the individual channel uses have memory or are influenced by an adversary. We analyze the explicit and computationally efficient construction…

quant-ph2022★ 159 cited

Fast Single Photon Detectors and real-time Key Distillation: Enabling High Secret Key Rate QKD Systems

Fadri Grünenfelder, Alberto Boaron, Matthieu Perrenoud +11

Quantum Key Distribution has made continuous progress over the last 20 years and is now commercially available. However, the secret key rates (SKR) are still limited to a few Mbps.…

q-fin.GN2022★ 8 cited

A Structured Survey of Quantum Computing for the Financial Industry

Franco D. Albareti, Thomas Ankenbrand, Denis Bieri +4

Quantum computers can solve specific problems that are not feasible on "classical" hardware. Harvesting the speed-up provided by quantum computers therefore has the potential to ch…

quant-ph2012★ 50 cited

A violation of the uncertainty principle implies a violation of the second law of thermodynamics

Esther Hänggi, Stephanie Wehner

Uncertainty relations state that there exist certain incompatible measurements, to which the outcomes cannot be simultaneously predicted. While the exact incompatibility of quantum…

quant-ph2012★ 8 cited

Towards the Impossibility of Non-Signalling Privacy Amplification from Time-Like Ordering Constraints

Rotem Arnon, Esther Hänggi, Amnon Ta-Shma

In the past few years there was a growing interest in proving the security of cryptographic protocols, such as key distribution protocols, from the sole assumption that the systems…

quant-ph2011★ 47 cited

The Link between Entropic Uncertainty and Nonlocality

Marco Tomamichel, Esther Hänggi

Two of the most intriguing features of quantum physics are the uncertainty principle and the occurrence of nonlocal correlations. The uncertainty principle states that there exist…

quant-ph2011★ 44 cited

Nonlocality is transitive

Sandro Coretti, Esther Hänggi, Stefan Wolf

We show a transitivity property of nonlocal correlations: There exist tripartite nonsignaling correlations of which the bipartite marginals between A and B as well as B and C are n…

quant-ph2010

Device-independent quantum key distribution

Esther Hänggi

In this thesis, we study two approaches to achieve device-independent quantum key distribution: in the first approach, the adversary can distribute any system to the honest parties…

quant-ph2010★ 14 cited

Tight bounds for classical and quantum coin flipping

Esther Hänggi, Jürg Wullschleger

Coin flipping is a cryptographic primitive for which strictly better protocols exist if the players are not only allowed to exchange classical, but also quantum messages. During th…

quant-ph2010★ 52 cited

Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution with Commuting Measurements

Esther Hänggi, Renato Renner

We consider quantum key distribution in the device-independent scenario, i.e., where the legitimate parties do not know (or trust) the exact specification of their apparatus. We sh…

quant-ph2009★ 58 cited

Quantum Cryptography Based Solely on Bell's Theorem

Esther Hänggi, Renato Renner, Stefan Wolf

Information-theoretic key agreement is impossible to achieve from scratch and must be based on some - ultimately physical - premise. In 2005, Barrett, Hardy, and Kent showed that u…

quant-ph2009★ 49 cited

The impossibility of non-signaling privacy amplification

Esther Hänggi, Renato Renner, Stefan Wolf

Barrett, Hardy, and Kent have shown in 2005 that protocols for quantum key agreement exist the security of which can be proven under the assumption that quantum or relativity theor…

quant-ph2008★ 14 cited

The non-locality of n noisy Popescu-Rohrlich boxes

Matthias Fitzi, Esther Hänggi, Valerio Scarani +1

We quantify the amount of non-locality contained in n noisy versions of so-called Popescu-Rohrlich boxes (PRBs), i.e., bipartite systems violating the CHSH Bell inequality maximall…