ID Quantique

ID Quantique SA

Type	Private (venture funded)
Industry	Quantum Cryptography Random Number Generation Photon Counting
Founded	Geneva, Switzerland (2001 (2001))
Headquarters	Geneva, GE, Switzerland
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 based in Geneva, Switzerland, which provides quantum key distribution (QKD) systems, quantum safe network encryption, single photon counters, and hardware random number generators.

It was founded in 2001 as a spin-off of the Group of Applied Physics at the University of Geneva.

The company is structured in 3 business units:

Quantum Safe Cryptography Division

The Quantum Safe Cryptography division focuses on data protection, provides:

The Photon Counting division works on optical instrumentation products such as:

The Random Number Generation focuses on developing hardware random number generators based on quantum randomness, for cryptographic and security applications (quantum key generation) and research purposes (MonteCarlo simulations).

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 1Gbit/s 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 AIS31^[9] randomness validation.
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]

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