Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester
20th -24th July 2026
Jointly funded by the University of Manchester and Lancaster University.
Jointly organised by academics at the University of Bristol, Lancaster University, the University of Manchester and Royal Holloway University of London.
QCPQA is an academic workshop investigating Quantum Cryptanalysis of Post-Quantum Algorithms.
We warmly welcome and encourage participants from both Academia and Industry to join us for this workshop!
If you have a problem you would like to propose please email one of the organisers.
At QCPQA we will devote time and effort to specific cryptanalytic challenges, as well as providing background material for researchers who are new to the subject.
Confirmed problems and problem leads:
Quantum Principal Ideal Problem and HAWK (Daniel Apon)
Lattice Sieving on Quantum Mesh Networks (Sam Jaques)
Isogenies and Collimation (Chloe Martindale)
Learning Parity with Noise and an Approximate Simon Algorithms (Daniel Shiu)
We welcome other project proposals (please just drop one of the organisers an email).
We particularly encourage Early Career Researchers to attend and limited funding is available to support their travel and accommodation costs. This will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
If you would like to be considered for funding please indicate this at registration and complete this google form.
Organisers:
Dan Fretwell (Lancaster University)
Ines Henriques-Cadby (University of Manchester)
Jessica Jay (Lancaster University)
Chloe Martindale (University of Bristol)
Rachel Player (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Daniel Shiu (University of Manchester)
We are very grateful for funding and support from:
