{"id":1216,"date":"2006-03-27T14:46:56","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T21:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2006-03-27T14:46:56","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T21:46:56","slug":"quantum-key-distribution-ready-for-prime-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/03\/27\/quantum-key-distribution-ready-for-prime-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Key Distribution: &#034;Ready for Prime Time&#034;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What should we make of this press release from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magiqtech.com\/\">MagiQ Technologies<\/a>?  The press release cites two advances:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe first breakthrough demonstrates there are no distance limitations to MagiQ\u2019s quantum cryptography solution. Utilizing Verizon\u2019s commercial fiber infrastructure, MagiQ successfully bridged two separate spans of 80km by cascading a number of MagiQ\u2019s QPN 7505 devices. The commercial fiber network is made up of spans, typically 80km, linked together to complete metro area networks and long haul networks. Cascading of quantum cryptography devices enables the deployment of quantum cryptography throughout the telecommunications network.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe second breakthrough demonstrates that quantum keys can be mixed with other optical signals on one strand of fiber. Previously, quantum cryptography devices required a dedicated dark fiber strand, which is costly and not always available, for the transmission of quantum keys. The multiplexing of quantum<br \/>\nkeys with data on one strand significantly reduces the cost of deploying quantum cryptography.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first item sounds like they are performing some sort of key infrastructure and not quantum repeaters, right?  I wonder how many of these MagicQ systems are actually in use right now?  Ah the world of cryptography, where every sentence I write is a question?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What should we make of this press release from MagiQ Technologies? The press release cites two advances: The first breakthrough demonstrates there are no distance limitations to MagiQ\u2019s quantum cryptography solution. Utilizing Verizon\u2019s commercial fiber infrastructure, MagiQ successfully bridged two separate spans of 80km by cascading a number of MagiQ\u2019s QPN 7505 devices. The commercial &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/03\/27\/quantum-key-distribution-ready-for-prime-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quantum Key Distribution: &#034;Ready for Prime Time&#034;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}