Kevin Bogner

Ph.D. Student
COSIC, KU Leuven
kevin.bogner (at) kuleuven.be

About Me

I am a PhD student in the COSIC research group at KU Leuven, Belgium. I am supervised by Bart Preneel, Dave Singelée, and Aysajan Abidin.

Research Interests

My research focuses on:

Quantum Cryptography
- Quantum distance-bounding protocols
- Distributed quantum computing
- Security analysis of quantum cryptographic protocols
Blockchain Security
- Post-quantum secure blockchain
- Formal verification of blockchain components

Publications

QCE'26

Tight Quantum Distance-Bounding with Conditional Terrorist-Fraud Resistance

Kevin Bogner, Aysajan Abidin, Dave Singelée, Bart Preneel

IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE 2026), 2026.

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QIP Journal

Security Framework for Quantum Distance-Bounding

Kevin Bogner, Aysajan Abidin, Dave Singelée, Bart Preneel

Quantum Information Processing Journal, 2026.

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QCNC'26

Lightweight Noise Diagnosis for Photonic Quantum Detectable Byzantine Agreement

Kevin Bogner, Kuan-Cheng Chen, Aysajan Abidin, Kin K. Leung

International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing (QCNC 2026), 2026.

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INFOCOM WS'25

Continuous Variable Quantum Distance Bounding

Kevin Bogner, Aysajan Abidin, Dave Singelée

IEEE INFOCOM 2025 Workshop, 2025.

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QSNS'24

Entangled States and Bell's Inequality: A New Approach to Quantum Distance Bounding

Kevin Bogner, Dave Singelée, Aysajan Abidin

Workshop on Quantum-Secure Networks and Systems, 2024.

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Talks

“Quantum Distance Bounding: Advancing Secure Proximity”. Talk presented at FOSDEM 2025, Brussels, Belgium, February 2025. (Event Page)

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms, KU Leuven, 2026.

Academic Service

Artifact Evaluation Reviewer, NDSS 2026.