ID Quantique

ID Quantique SA
Private (venture funded)
Industry Quantum Cryptography
Hardware Random Number Generators
Encryption
Key Management
Photon Counting
Founded Geneva, Switzerland
(2001 (2001))
Headquarters Geneva, GE, Switzerland
Coordinates Coordinates: 46°10′48″N 6°08′07″E / 46.1800886°N 6.1353231°E / 46.1800886; 6.1353231
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Gregoire Ribordy
Products Quantum Hardware Random Number Generators
Quantum Key Generation
Quantum Key Distribution
Network Encryptors
Photon Counting
Website idquantique.com

ID Quantique (IDQ) is a Swiss company located in Geneva, Switzerland which provides quantum key distribution (QKD) systems, single photon counters, and hardware random number generators. The company was founded in 2001 as a spin-off of the Group of Applied Physics at the University of Geneva.

The company has realized several world premieres in quantum technology innovation. In 2004, ID Quantique was the first in the world to bring a quantum key distribution system to a commercial market.[1]

In 2007 quantum cryptography was deployed by a government for the first time ever to protect the Geneva state elections in Switzerland.[2][3][4] It is still in deployment.

In 2010 the company deployed QKD over multiplexed networks with 1Gbps of data,[5][6] and in 2011 the company ran its QKD systems for over 18 months in the Swissquantum[7] network in cooperation with the University of Geneva.

In 2014, principles from IDQ together with the University of Geneva, broke the world record for the longest distance key exchange by QKD – 307 km.[8]

In 2014 IDQ’s Quantis true random number generator became the first QRNG to pass the German BSI’s stringent AIS31[9] randomness validation. The company is also involved in the development of quantum repeaters.

In 2014 ID Quantique and Battelle co-founded the Quantum-Safe Security Working Group in the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). The group aims to help governments and industry understand quantum‐safe methods for protecting their networks and their data, following the call by the European telecommunications Institute (ETSI) for quantum safe cryptography in their 2014 white paper “Quantum Safe Cryptography and Security”.[10]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Although the commercial availability was announced earlier, the first orders were shipped to customers around 2004.
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12786-quantum-cryptography-to-protect-swiss-election/
  4. ↑ http://www.networkworld.com/article/2286834/lan-wan/quantum-cryptography-to-secure-ballots-in-swiss-election.html
  5. ↑ http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1798
  6. ↑ http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2583
  7. ↑ http://crypto.junod.info/2011/12/02/looking-back-to-the-swissquantum-project/
  8. ↑ http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.7427
  9. ↑ https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Zertifizierung/Interpretationen/AIS_31_pdf.pdf
  10. ↑ https://docbox.etsi.org/Workshop/2014/201410_CRYPTO/Quantum_Safe_Whitepaper_1_0_0.pdf

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, November 26, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.