Quantum-Safe Security

Brochures

• Clavis³ QKD for R&D
• Cerberis³ QKD System
• Clavis³⁰⁰ Quantum Cryptography Platform
• Quantum-Safe Cryptography

Application Notes on Quantum Key Distribution

• Quantum Technologies for 5G

White papers on Quantum Key Distribution

• Understanding Quantum Cryptography
  Introductory level IDQ white paper explaining what quantum cryptography and how it complements conventional cryptographic techniques.
• IDQ on Quantum Technologies
  FAQs on quantum technologies from IDQ; explaining the implications of quantum computers, quantum hacking and the future of QKD technology
• SECOQC White Paper on Quantum Key Distribution and Cryptography
  Article written by the researchers involved in the European SECOQC project and which discusses the application of quantum key distribution in the context of conventional cryptography.
• Why Quantum Technologies Matter in Critical Infrastructure and IoT
  This paper, written for DefTech (armasuisse), reviews how the emergence of new quantum technologies will impact IoT cryptographic security – both creating in new threat vectors, such as a quantum computer, as well as providing some immediate solutions.
• ETSI Quantum-Safe Cryptography and Security

Use cases

• Financial Services: 10G encryption with QKD for disaster recovery
• Geneva Government: 1G encryption with QKD
• Telecom Service Provider: QKD-as-a-service
• Telecom Service Provider: 100G encryption with QKD
• Telecom Service Provider: SK Telecom QKD for 5G Network
• Finance: The Quantum Vault
• Utilities: Future-proof datacenter interconnection

Selected scientific publications on Quantum Key Distribution

• Mining your Ps and Qs: Detection of Widespread Weak Keys in Network Devices
  Nadia Heninger, Zakir Durumeric, Eric Wustrow, J. Alex Halderman
• Practical Aspects of Security Certification for Commercial Quantum Technologies
  Nino Walenta, Mathilde Soucarros, Damien Stucki, Dario Caselunghe, Mathias Domergue, Michael Hagerman, Randall Hart, Don Hayford, Raphael Houlmann, Matthieu Legre, Todd McCandlish, Jean-Benoit page, Maurice Tourville, Richard Wolterman
• 5G Network Slicing with QKD and Quantum-Safe Security
  Paul Wright, Catherine White, Ryan C. Parker, Jean-Sébastien Pegon, Marco Menchetti, Joseph Pearse, Arash Bahrami, Anastasia Moroz, Adrian Wonfor, Richard V. Penty, Timothy P. Spiller, Andrew Lord
• The quantum technologies roadmap: a European community view
  A. Acin, I. Bloch, H. Buhrman, T. Calarco, C. Eichler, J. Eisert, D. Esteve, N. Gisin, S. J. Glaser, F Jelezko, S. Kuhr, M. Lewenstein, M. F. Riedel, P. O. Schmidt, R. Thew, A. Wallraff, I. Walmsley and F. K. Wilhelm
  New Journal of Physics, 20 (2018) 1367-2630
• Provably secure and practical QKD over 307 km of optical fibre
  B. Korzh. C. Ci Wen Lim, R. Houlmann, N. Gisin, Ming Jun Li, D. Nolan, B. Sanguinetti, R. Thew, H. Zbinden
  Nature Photonics 9, (2015) 163-168
• A fast and versatile QKD system with hardware key distillation and wavelength multiplexing
  N. Walenta, A. Burg, D. Caselunghe, J. Constantin, N. Gisin, O. Guinnard, R. Houlmann, P. Junod, B. Korzh, N. Kulesza, M. Legré, C. C. W. Lim, T. Lunghi, L. Monat, C. Portmann, M. Soucarros, P. Trinkler, G. Trolliet, F. Vannel, H.Zbinden
  New Journal of Physics, 16 (1) 013047, 2014
• Long-term performance of the Swiss Quantum QKD network in a field environment
  D Stucki, M Legré, F Buntschu, B Clausen, N Felber, N Gisin, L Henzen, P Junod, G Litzistorf, P Monbaron, L Monat, J-B Page, D Perroud, G Ribordy, A Rochas, S Robyr, J Tavares, R Thew, P Trinkler, S Ventura, R Voirol, N Walenta, H Zbinden
  New Journal of Physics, 13 (2011) 123001
• Quantum Key Distribution and 1Gbit/s data encryption over a single fibre
  P Eraerds, N Walenta, Matthieu Legré , N Gisin and H Zbinden
  New Journal of Physics (2010)
• Quantum Cryptography
  N. Gisin, G. Ribordy, W. Tittel and H. Zbinden
  Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 74 (2002), 145-195
• Quantum Key Distribution over 67km with a Plug&Play System
  D. Stucki, N. Gisin, O. Guinnard, G. Ribordy and H Zbinden
  New Journal of Physics 4 (2002) 41.1–41.8
• Experimental Decoy State Quantum Key Distribution Over 15km
  Y. Zhao, B. Qi, X. Ma, H.-K. Lo, L. Qian
  Physical Review Letters 96, 070502 (2006)

Videos

• How to hack an optical fiber
• How to find an optical fiber