- Operating beneath streets of Cambridge, Mass
- DARPA Quantum Network links BBN?s campus to Harvard University
- BBN is developing a practical network with inband encryption and out-of-band key distribution
- Uses quantum mechanics to perform data encryption
- Quantum cryptography was invented by Charles Bennet and Giles Brassard in 1980s
- Quantum Key Distribution uses single photon of light
- Single Quantum Key Distribution Network limited to 50 km
- Would require a QKD Network of trusted nodes
- BBN was a developer of the ARPANET, made the first router
- QKD is research is being conducted at NIST (Part of Department of Commerce
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June 5, 2004
- BAN Unveils World?s First Quantum Cryptography Network