Building Europe's Quantum Shield: The Strategic view for a Continent-Wide Quantum Key Ditribution (QKD) Infrastructure

Computer Science > Cryptography and Security [Submitted on 21 May 2026] Building Europe's Quantum Shield: The Strategic view for a Continent-Wide Quantum Key Ditribution (QKD) Infrastructure Leandros Maglaras, Ilias Papastamatiou, Alexios Aivaliotis, Evangelos Markatos, Konstantinos Karantzalos The fast growth of quantum computing can lead to amazing scientific breakthroughs while on the same time can be used to break today's security systems, raising new risks for existing digital systems. Facing this challenge, the European's Union's deployement of the European Communication Infrastructure (EuroQCI) is crucial. The SEEWQCI project combines fiber cables, satellite communications and enhanced security rules to build a strong digital shield. Its focus is to protect vital services like power grids and hospitals keeping Europeans' data safe. Comments: 10 pages Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) Cite as: arXiv:2605.22332 [cs.CR]   (or arXiv:2605.22332v1 [cs.CR] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.22332 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Leandros Maglaras A [view email] [v1] Thu, 21 May 2026 11:20:47 UTC (1,217 KB) Access Paper: view license Current browse context: cs.CR < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-05 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)