The company has realized several world premieres in quantum technology innovation.
In 2004, ID Quantique was one of the first in the world to bring a quantum key distribution system to a commercial market. (MagiQ Technologies, Inc. announced the availability of its quantum key distribution system in 2003.)[1]
In 2007 quantum cryptography was deployed by a government for the first time ever to protect the Geneva state elections in Switzerland.[2][3][4] It is still in deployment.
In 2010 the company deployed QKD over multiplexed networks with 1Gbit/s of data,[5][6] and in 2011 the company ran its QKD systems for over 18 months in the Swissquantum[7] network in cooperation with the University of Geneva.
In 2014, principles from IDQ together with the University of Geneva, broke the world record for the longest distance key exchange by QKD – 307 km.[8]
In 2014 IDQ's Quantis true random number generator became the first QRNG to pass the German BSI's AIS31[9] randomness validation.
In 2014 ID Quantique and Battelle co-founded the Quantum-Safe Security Working Group in the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). The group aims to help governments and industry understand quantum‐safe methods for protecting their networks and their data, following the call by the European telecommunications Institute (ETSI) for quantum safe cryptography in their 2014 white paper "Quantum Safe Cryptography and Security".[10]
ID Quantique also announced their Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) chip has been integrated in the ‘Vsmart Aris 5G’ smartphone made by VinSmart, a member of Vingroup from Vietnam.[11]
^Korzh, Boris; Lim, Charles Ci Wen; Houlmann, Raphael; Gisin, Nicolas; Li, Ming Jun; Nolan, Daniel; Sanguinetti, Bruno; Thew, Rob; Zbinden, Hugo (1 March 2015). "Provably Secure and Practical Quantum Key Distribution over 307 km of Optical Fibre". Nature Photonics. 9 (3): 163–168. arXiv:1407.7427. Bibcode:2015NaPho...9..163K. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.327. S2CID59028718.
