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- 2007-04-25
- Interesting article published in Physical Review A by Kim. et al.
on an experiment of a quantum attack to QKD. The results are in agreement with the theory, contrary to what it
would seem to come from the article on Nature.
Scientific article: http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0611235
Physical Review A: http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet
Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070423/full/070423-10.html
- 2007-03-08
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At the March 2007 meeting of the American Physical Society has been presented the result of an experiment
to create QKD secret keys in free space at a distance of 144 km, this could be the first step towards
ground to satellite QKD.
Scientific article: http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0607182
APS: http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR07/Event/63945
Comment: http://www.aip.org/pnu/2007/815.html
- 2007-02-13
- D-Wave has publicy presented its first prototype of Quantum Computer.
Announcement: http://dwave.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/quantum-computing-demo-announcement/
Press Release: http://www.dwavesys.com/index.php?mact=News
Comment: http://punto-informatico.it/p.aspx?id=1892143
Comment: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/13/dwave_quantum/
Comment: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TECHBIT_QUANTUM_QUANDARY
Comment: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/02/15/quantum.computer.ap/index.html
- 2007-01-24
- Secoqc has published a whitepaper on QKD.
Whitepaper: http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0701168
- 2007-01-19
- On February 13 and 15 2007 there will be the first public demo of the DWAVE prototype of Quantum Computer.
Announcement: http://dwave.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/quantum-computing-demo-announcement/
- 2007-01-11
- idQuantique announces a new hybrid implementation for the Australian Stock Exchange Senetas which allows to use QKD keys in Senetas' 1Gb-ehthernet link encryptors.
Announcement: http://www.idquantique.com/news/files/Release_joint_venture.pdf
- 2006-12-13
- An interview by hackreport.net with Bob Gelfond, CEO of Magiq, and a lively discussion on QKD among the readers.
Article: http://hackreport.net/2006/12/13/quantum-cryptography-its-some-kind-of-magiq/
- 2006-09-25
- NIST announces the new record for Quantum Cryptography: 184.6 Km.
Announcement: http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/qkd_release.html
- 2006-05-12
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corp., and Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo have successfully interconnected quantum cryptography systems developed by Mitsubishi Electric and NEC, the first time such an experiment has been successful in Japan. The Institute of Industrial Science at University of Tokyo evaluated the system's security.
Announcement: http://global.mitsubishielectric.com/news/news_releases/2006/mel0655.pdf
Also in: http://www.physorg.com/news66661337.html
- 2005-12-11
- Researchers at the Michigan University have announced the creation of the first Quantum Chip that is the first qubit built with semiconductor techniques similar to those of standard electronics.
Announcement: http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2005/Dec05/r121205b
- 2005-12-01
- Researchers at Innsbruck University have announced the production of the first Quantum Byte that is a 8 qubit system in a Paul trap wchihc should lead to the construction of the first 8 qubit = 1 quByte Quantum Computer.
Announcement: http://heart-c704.uibk.ac.at/index.html
- 2005-11-09
- The USA Government is considering imposing restrictions on the export of technologies related to quantum computers and quantum cryptography.
Article: http://news.com.com/Feds+mull+regulation+of+quantum+computers/2100-11395_3-5942445.html
- 2005-10-29
- Birth of the Quantum Worms: New Scientist has an interesting article on the security of quantum computers due to the Quantum Worms proposed by Lian-Ao Wu and Daniel Lidar.
Article: http://www.chem.utoronto.ca/staff/dlidar/Quantum_NewScientist.pdf
Scientific article: http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/?0505126
- 2005-04-27
- Toshiba Research Europe announces that it has succeeded in applying
quantum cryptography to the transmission of video and voice-over-IP.
Press release: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/research/crl/QIG/Press2005-04-27-securevideo.html
- 2005-04-25
- idQuantique announces a new model: Vectis
Press release: http://www.idquantique.com/news/files/release-vectis.pdf
- 2005-03-28
- MagiQ Technologies announces a new model: QPN 7505
Press release: http://www.magiqtech.com/press/MagiQ_7505.pdf
- 2005-03-24
- Experimental Quantum Key Distribution with Decoy States, Yi Zhao,
Bing Qi, Xiongfeng Ma, Hoi-Kwong Lo, Li Qian; first practical implementation
of the Quantum decoy technique.
On-line scientific article: http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0503192
- 2004-12-20
- Best-Kept Secrets by Gary Stix, Scientific American, January 2005;
a nicely written introductory article on Quantum Cryptography.
On-line article: http://www.sciam.com/
- 2004-11-13
- Quantum decoys create uncrackable code, Mark Buchanan,
NewScientist.com;
a comment on the relevance of Quantum decoy for QKD.
On-line article: http://www.newscientist.com/
- 2004-10-31
- Decoy State Quantum Key Distribution, Hoi-Kwong Lo, Xiongfeng Ma,
Kai Chen propose a practical implementation of QKD using the states called
Quantum decoy introduced by Hwang in 2002.
On-line scientific article: http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0411004
- 2004-09-28
- Deckpoint and id-Quantique announce the first network for remote data archiving secured by Quantum Cryptography.
Press realease: http://www.idquantique.com/news/release-deckpoint.htm
- 2004-07-01
- The Web site of the SECOQC project of the European Union has been launched.
Web site: http://www.secoqc.net/index.html
- 2004-06-03
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BBN in collaboration with
DARPA, has announced that the DARPA Quantum Network being built
in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA), is active since 23 Ottobre 2003 continuously.
This network adopts Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) to guarantee its security,
and will be extended to the campus of Harvard University and
Boston University using dark fibers in the Cambridge metropolitan area.
Press realease: http://www.bbn.com/News_and_Events/Press_Releases/2004/04_06_03.html
Project: http://www.bbn.com/For_Government_Customers/Networking/Quantum_Cryptography.html, http://quantum.bbn.com/
- 2004-05-06
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A team of US scientists from the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) in Colorado and Acadia Optronics, Maryland, has announced
to have built a new Quantum Cryptography system in 730 m free-space link
with a key transfer rate of 1Mbps, about 100 times faster than
previous demonstrations using optical fibers.
Announcement: http://optics.org/articles/news/10/5/2/1
- 2004-04-21
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Today in Wien the first financial transaction has been realized in which
the security of the communications has been guaranteed by Quantum
Cryptography. Professor Zeilinger's group of Wien University and
Seibersdorf Research have developed and realized the Quantum Cryptography
system. The financial transaction has been done by the Mayor of the city
of Wien from City Hall to the Bank Austria Creditanstalt.
Press Release: http://www.quantenkryptographie.at/rathaus_press.html
Technical publication: http://lanl.arXiv.org/quant-ph/0404115
- 2004-04-01
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Start of the SECOQC project of the European Union: the project has a budget
of 11,4 Million Euros in 4 years, there are 41 partners of 12 European
countries.
Press Release: http://www.quantenkryptographie.at/
Project: http://www.arcs.ac.at/quanteninfo/
- 2004-03-12
- NEC has announced the new record of Quantum Cryptography: 150 chilometers.
Press Release: http://www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0403/1201.html
Historical Notes
- 2002-2003
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First commercial prototypes from Id Quantique
(http://www.idquantique.com/)
and MagiQ
(http://www.magiqtech.com/)
- 2002-11-24
- Quantum Key Distribution with High Loss: Toward Global
Secure Communication, W.-Y. Hwang
proposes a new technique able to greatly increase the performances of
current implementations of QKD systems using states called
Quantum decoy.
On-line scientific article: http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0211153
- 2001-12-19
- Scientists at IBM's Almaden Research Center using a 7-qubit quantum computer have factorized 15 in 3 times 5 using
Shor's algorithm
- 2000
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Chuang and collaborators build the first
5-qubit quantum computer at IBM-Almaden and run the order finding algorithm
- 2000
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Three research groups implement systems of Quantum Cryptography using
Entangled Photons
- 1999
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Chuang and collaborators build the first
3-qubit quantum computer at IBM-Almaden and run Grover's database-search algorithm
- 1999
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Bourennane, Gibson, Karlsson, Hening, Jonsson, Tsegaye, Ljunggren, Sundberg
implement a system of Quantum Cryptography Plug-&-Play on the distance of
40 km
- 1999
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Merolla, Mazurenko, Goedgebner, Rhodes implement a system of Quantum
Cryptography sideband-modulation phase-encoding on the distance of
20 km
- 1998
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Chuang and collaborators build the first
2-qubit quantum computer at University of California Berkeley
- 1997
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Zbinden, Gautier, Gisin, Huttner, Muller, Tittel implement a system of
Quantum Cryptography Plug-&-Play on the distance of 23 km under Geneva
lake using Telecom optical fibers
- 1995
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Lov Grover publishes the algorithms for Quantum Computers to search on
un-structured search spaces
- 1994
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Peter Shor publishes the algorithms for Quantum Computers to factorize
prime numbers and solve discrete logarithms
- 1993
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Townsend, Rarity, Tapster implement a system of Quantum Cryptography
phase-encoding on the distance of 10 Km
- 1992
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Bennett, Bessette, Brassard, Salvail, Smolin implement for the first time
a system of Quantum Cryptography in a laboratory
- 1992
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Charles Bennett proposes the protocol of Quantum Cryptography B92
- 1991
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Artur Ekert proposes the protocol of Quantum Cryptography based on
Entangled Photons
- 1989
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Bennett and Brassard develop the first experimental prototype of Quantum
Cryptography
- 1985
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David Deutsch publishes the first paper on a Quantum Computer
- 1984
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Bennett and Brassard publish the first and main protocol of Quantum
Cryptography, the BB84
- 1982
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Richard Feynman proposes the idea of a Quantum Computer
- 1979
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Bennett e Brassard start to work on the idea of Quantum Cryptography,
the first paper will be published in 1982
- 1970 circa
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Stephen Wiesner formulates the first protocol which includes some
elements of Quantum Cryptography, is a protocol to create quantum
bank notes; this work will be published only in 1983
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