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Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program - Collaborative R&D Initiatives
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2024-2025
Agreement period
November 4, 2024 – March 31, 2026
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2024-2025-Q3-1014712

Published purpose

Existing key management systems using Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) technology are based on trusted relays in order to overcome the distance limitations of QKD solutions. This approach has a strong drawback: the attack surface of these systems is proportional to the number of the nodes, as a single compromised relay can potentially learn the keys of all users. This project will implement a different approach to integrate Twin-Field (TF) QKD in scalable infrastructure, by relying on a distributed trust architecture named Distributed Symmetric Key Exchange (DSKE). The combination of DSKE and TF-QKD allows to build a scalable network, called DSK

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