QuantumPrime is a research project focus on the development of a generator of prime numbers based on
quantum
randomness. The consortium of this project is composed by
Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT),
namely the
Optical Quantum Communications
Group (OQC‐Av)
at IT Aveiro and the
Security and Quantum Information
Group (SQIG‐Lx) at IT Lisbon.
In this project, we are going to design and implement a high-rate quantum random number generator (QRNG)
based
on homodyne measurement of quantum
vacuum states.The system will also include real-time post-processing algorithms to remove any
possible correlation and biasing phenomenon among the generated bits. Subsequently, we
are going to design a protocol to efficiently distillate large-prime numbers from the
quantum random number generator output. At the end we intent to implement a service of random
prime number generation in a network server to allow the large usage of these prime numbers by
the scientific community and by any other entities that required large-prime
numbers, generated at very high-rates with perfect randomness, which can only be provided
by quantum technology.