Press Coverage

As a leader in quantum-safe crypto solutions, ID Quantique often feature in industry publications and the press. Here, you will find an archive of our press coverage, which we limit to the last four years for convenience.

Press coverage 2021

• The Verge: Samsung’s Galaxy Quantum 2 has quantum cryptography built in
  13 April 2021
• Aju Business Daily: SK Telecom applies quantum cryptographic communication technology to IP equipment
  6 April 2021
• The Quantum Daily: Schrödinger’s Unicorns: 12 Private Quantum Startups That May Become — Or May Already Be — Billion Dollar Companies
  7 March 2021
• SDxCentral: Colt, ADVA Trial Quantum-Safe Network Encryption
  16 February 2021
• Léman Bleu: Le Monde de Demain: Le cryptage des données
  02 February 2021

Press coverage 2020

• Laser Focus World: 60 years of lasers — What’s next?
  29 December 2020
• Inside Quantum Technology: QRNGs: First Mass Market For Quantum Technology
  08 December 2020
• ZDNet: Quantum computing may make current encryption obsolete, a quantum internet could be the solution
  03 November 2020
• ZDNet: Will quantum computing disrupt any industries that matter, and how soon?
  02 November 2020
• OSA – The Optical Society: Putting the “Quantum” in Security
  15 September 2020
• Telecom Drive: SK Telecom, DGB Daegu Bank to Launch M-Banking Powered by 5G Quantum Cryptography
  26 August 2020
• Forbes: Securing The West’s 5G Advantage
  9 July 2020
• Inside Quantum Technology: Samsung And SK Telecom May Have Just Expanded The Quantum Encryption Market By Orders Of Magnitude
  27 May 2020
• The Quantum Daily: A Quantum Smartphone? Samsung and SK Telecom Super Secured by ID Quantique’s Quantum Chip
  25 May 2020
• Forbes: Samsung Surprise As World’s First Smartphone With Quantum Technology Launches May 22
  15 May 2020
• Computer Weekly: SK Telecom brings quantum security to the masses
  14 May 2020
• Electronics Weekly: QKD standardisation report approved
  3 April 2020
• World Today News: Mt Pelerin and ID Quantique test their quantum security digital safe in Geneva
  27 March 2020
• QRange: ID Quantique launches an ultra-small Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) chip for mobile, IoT and edge applications
  27 March 2020
• Tages Anzeiger, Cryptoleaks: “Das Vertrauen in Schweizer Produkte ist gesunken”
  27 February 2020

Press coverage 2019

• TechUK, BT advocate an integrated national response to quantum!
  11 November 2019
• IT&E, IT&E to bring quantum cryptography to the Marianas
  11 November 2019
• CasinoBeats, RNG boost for Digitain gaming portfolio
  05 November 2019
• Pulse, SK Telecom’s IDQ to supply QKD solutions to EU-led QKD network infrastructure project
  21 October 2019
• Nature, Quantum gold rush: the private funding pouring into quantum start-ups
  02 October 2019
• Bilan, Genève met à l’honneur ID Quantique et Serbeco
  23 September 2019
• Unit DX, The science behind the technology
  08 August 2019
• Security Boulevard, The race is on! Crypto agility vs quantum computing. Who is ahead?
  06 August 2019
• Verdict, Preparing for quantum computing’s devastating impact on cybersecurity
  05 August 2019
• NewtonX, What happened to the quantum computing hype? Here is where the technology is expected to head
  30 July 2019
• ZDNet, SK Telecom develops quantum key switching tech
  28 June 2019
• L’Agefi, Mt Pelerin signe un partenariat avec la société genevoise ID Quantique
  04 June 2019
• Finyear, Mt Pelerin Partner with ID Quantique to Develop the First Quantum-Based Solution for the Secure Storage of Crypto Assets
  04 June 2019
• ITU News, Quantum specialists are racing to join the ITU membership: ID Quantique explains why
  21 May 2019
• Bobs guide, Large US Banks up security to get ahead of the quantum threat
  09 May 2019
• Ars Technica, Fear the Man in the Middle?This company wants to sell quantum key distribution
  28 April 2019
• E&T, We need to think out of the box: physicist Maria Spiropulu on how the build the quantum internet
  16 April 2019
• E&T, Ultra-secure quantum connection tests begin over UK network
  26 March 2019
• ComputerWeekly.com, BT switches on quantum network link at Adastral Park
  26 March 2019
• CBR Online, This World-First, Ultra-Secure Network is Testing Quantum Key Distribution
  26 March 2019
• Networkworld, Quantum computing will break your encryption in a few years
  20 March 2019
• Swissinfo, Top Swiss institutes lauch joint cyber-security programme
  20 March 2019
• Telecom Drive, SK Telecom Continues to Arm its 5G Network with Quantum Cryptography
  18 March 2019
• The Korea Bizwire, SK Telecom Applies Quantum Cryptography for 5G Security
  18 March 2019
• The Korea Times, SKT uses quantum cryptography to create safer 5G network 
  18 March 2019
• Yonhap News, SK Telecom applies quantum cryptography for 5G security
  18 March 2019
• The Register, UK’s beloved RNGesus machine ERNIE goes quantum in 5th iteration
  01 March 2019
• Optics.org, Quantum optics chip picks UK Premium Bond winners
  01 March 2019
• The Guardian, Premium bond Ernie takes quantum leap into fifth generation
  01 March 2019
• Mobile World Live, Industry must address urgent IoT security threat
  28 February 2019
• ZDNet, SK Telecom to launch quantum gateway for self-driving car security
  20 February 2019

Press coverage 2018

• Physics World, The Quantum Y2K moment
  03 December 2018
• Physics World, Becoming a quantum entrepreneur
  03 December 2018
• La Recherche, Les Technologies quantiques et post-quantiques sont complémentaires
  November 2018
• Le Temps, Le genevois ID Quantique séduit Deutsche Telekom
  23 October 2018
• L’ Agefi, Deutsche Telekom investit dans IDQ
  23 October 2018
• Mobile World Live, DT, SKT eye 5G with mutual investment deal
  23 October 2018
• Le Temps, Les 100 qui font la Suisse du numérique
  01 October 2018
• BBC, Academics in drive to make code from space unbreakable
  19 September 2018
• Le Temps, A la recherche des métiers quantiques
  29 August 2018
• L’Agefi, Le pouvoir illimité de l’ordinateur quantique
  22 August 2018
• Phys Org, Ytterbium: The quantum memory of tomorrow
  23 July 2018
• Physics World, Engineering eureka: how industry engages with basic research
  11 July 2018
• IEEE Spectrum, The Future of Cybersecurity Is the Quantum Random Number Generator
  28 June 2018
• Help Net Security, Quantum Xchange raises $10 million funding to bring its QKD network to market
  26 June 2018
• Computer Weekly, BT announces “unhackable” quantum-secured network
  12 June 2018
• Signal, Collaboration Key to Multinational Transformation
  8 June 2018
• Wired, Quantum mechanics could solve cryptography’s random number problem
  11 April 2018
• Quantum Business, A Quantum Leap in Cryptography: Interview with Grégoire Ribordy from ID Quantique
  15 March 2018
• La Tribune de Genève, Une PME lie la physique genevoise à la Corée
  05 March 2018
• L’Agefi, SK Telecom et IDQ s’associent pour un réseau de communication sécurisé
  05 March 2018
• NZZ, Der Quantencomputer könnte das Sicherheitsgefüge im Internet zerstören
  02 March 2018
• Entreprise Romande, Processeurs quantiques: ils vont bouleverser l’informatique
  02 March 2018
• ICT Journal, La firme genevoise ID Quantique passe en mains sud-coréennes
  26 February 2018
• Le Temps, Le genevois ID Quantique passe sous contrôle coréen pour 65 millions
  26 February 2018
• La Tribune de Genève, ID Quantique noue une alliance à 65 millions avec la Corée
  26 February 2018
• NZZ, Südkoreanischer Telekomriese steigt bei Schweizer Startup ein
  26 February 2018
• RTSINFO, Un géant sud-coréen met la main sur la PME genevoise ID Quantique
  26 February 2018
• Radio Television Suisse, Les Sud-Coréens investissent à Genève
  26 February 2018
• L’Agefi, Le géant sud-coréen des télécommunications SK Telecom investit 65 millions dans IDQ
  26 February 2018
• Nature, The quantum internet has arrived (and it hasn’t)
  14 February 2018
• Le Temps, Course internationale autour de la physique quantique
  08 February 2018
• L’Agefi, Les promesses de la cryptographie quantique
  23 January 2018
• L’Usine Nouvelle, Cybersécurité suisse : panorama d’une économie en plein essor
  15 January 2018

Press coverage 2017

• LaserFocusWorld, Ariane 6 launch program chooses ID Quantique single-photon-counting technology
  17 December 2017
• L’Agefi, QuSat, un satellite pour la distribution de clés quantiques
  15 December 2017
• Largeur, Les espérances de la cryptographie quantique
  27 November 2017
• L’AGEFI, IDQ La Suisse anticipe la suprématie quantique
  27 September 2017
• BBC Worldwide Radio, IDQ interview on China first ‘commercial’ quantum network for secure communications
  14 September 2017
• IT World Canada, Encryption-breaking quantum computers getting closer, warns Canadian expert
  13 September 2017
• Tages Anzeiger, Ohne die Schweiz geht es nicht
  08 August 2017
• Business Insider, “Quantum” technology is the future, and it’s already here – here’s what that means for you
  31July 2017
• Gazettabyte, A quantum leap in fear
  28 July 2017
• eeNews, European technology behind latest IoT quantum chip
  24 July 2017
• The Register, China’s “future-proof” crypto: we talk to firm behind crazy quantum key distribution network
  19 July 2017
• Largeur.com, Le maillon fort de la lutte cybersécuritaire
  17 July 2017
• Electro Optics, ID900 Time Controller
  10 July 2017
• Deutsche Welle, Phone Home: How Photon Entanglement Could Secure Our Interplanetary Internet
  21 June 2017
• The “Verge”, Chinese Scientists Have Built the First Quantum Satellite Network
  16 June 2017
• The Wall Street Journal, China Makes Leap Toward ‘Unhackable’ Quantum Network
  16 June 2017
• NZZ, Cyber Security vom Genfersee
  17 May 2017
• L’Agefi, Le premier accélérateur de drones-cargos lancé en Chine
  15 May 2017
• Futuretech Podcast, IDQ – From Quantum-Safe cryptology to True, Quantum-Based random number generators
  15 March 2017
• CIEPP Journal, Bleu Horizon
  13 March 2017
• The Economist, Here, there and everywhere: Quantum technology is beginning to come into its own
  10 March 2017
• SecurityLab, Квантовые вычисления представляют угрозу кибербезопасности
  10 March 2017
• Help Net Security, The security threat of quantum computing is real, and it’s coming fast
  09 March 2017
• Wired, The Race to Sell True Quantum Computers Begins Before They Really Exists
  06 March 2017
• Aargauerzeitung, Forscher tüfteln am ersten Supercomputer – doch die verrückte Rechenmaschine birgt auch Gefahren
  17 February 2017

Press coverage 2016

• Inc.com, If You Want To Protect Your Business, You Need To Start Thinking About Quantum Encryption Now
  13 December 2016
• Le temps, Le Genevois ID Quantique se déchaîne à l’international
  13 December 2016
• IEEE SPECTRUM, China’s 2000-km Quantum Link Is Almost Complete
  26 October 2016
• The Camping Canuck, Scientists One Step Closer To Human Teleportation
  20 September 2016
• Le temps, La Téléportation Quantique Grandeur Nature
  19 September 2016
• Inside-IT, KPN setzt auf Genfer Quantenverschlüsselung
  18 May 2016
• The Hague Security Delta, HSD Partner KPN Deploys Quantum Encryption
  18 May 2016
• WN, KPN to implement quantum encrypted connection (QKD) (Koninklijke KPN NV)
  17 May 2016
• Encryption.chat, Quantum Key Distribution Deployed By KPN
  17 May 2016
• Computable, KPN past quantumversleuteling toe in datacenters
  17 May 2016
• Tribune de Genève, Messages codés à la sauce quantique
  13 May 2016
• Tribune de Genève, Berne a un retard cataclysmique dans la cybersécurité
  12 May 2016
• Torino Reppublica, Partirà da Torino la prima “telefonata quantistica”: “Sarà impossibile intercettarla”
  14 April 2016
• Scientific American, The Quantum Hack
  19 January 2016

Press coverage 2015

• Hacked.com, Acronis and ID Quantique to bring Quantum-Safe Encryption to cloud
  30 September 2015
• IT Wire, Acronis and ID Quantique’s quantum leap into cloud data encryption
  30 September 2015
• Computerworld, Coverage on ID Quantique partnership release
  30 September 2015
• Cloud Wedge, Acronis Future Proofs Your Cloud By Introducing Qunantum Safe encryption
  29 September 2015
• eChannelNews, Acronis Partners with ID Quantique to Bring Quantum-Safe Encryption to Cloud Data Protection
  29 September 2015
• Hardware Zone, Acronis Partners with ID Quantique to Bring Quantum-Safe Encryption to Cloud Data Protection
  29 September 2015
• Security Asia, Acronis, ID Quantique prepare for the arrival of quantum computing
  29 September 2015
• Convergence Asia, Acronis partners ID Quantique to bring quantum-safe encryption to the cloud
  29 September 2015
• Optics, Coverage on ID Quantique partnership release
  29 September 2015
• Info Security Magazine, Coverage on ID Quantique partnership release
  29 September 2015
• Tech week, Coverage on ID Quantique partnership release
  29 September 2015
• TechTradeAsia, Acronis is first cloud data protection solution provider to offer quantum-safe encryption capabilities
  28 September 2015
• Hay Canal, Coverage on ID Quantique partnership release
  28 September 2015
• The conversation, Get used to it: quantum computing will bring immense processing possibilities
  02 September 2015
• Hacked, Quantum cryptorgraphy uses fondamental physics to protect secret data.
  01 September 2015
• Nature, Quantum ‘spookiness’ passes toughest test yet.
  27 August 2015
• Networkworld, New products of the week 07-06-2015
  July 2015
• Gizmondo, Hunting for Random: The quest to find numbers that keep your data safe
  13 March 2015
• Université de Genève, La cryptographie quantique sur plus de 300 kilomètres
  04 February 2015
• Computerweekly, Quantum key distribution is the future for secure comms
  January 2015