Editing Quantum key distribution (section)

=== Commercial ===

Many companies around the world offer commercial quantum key distribution, for example: [[ID Quantique]] (Geneva), [[Toshiba]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.toshiba.eu/quantum/products/quantum-key-distribution/ | title=Quantum Key Distribution - What is QKD? How Does It Work? }}</ref> [[MagiQ Technologies, Inc.]] (New York), QNu Labs ([[Bengaluru]], [[India]]), [[QuintessenceLabs]] (Australia), [[QRate]] (Russia), SeQureNet (Paris), Quantum Optics Jena (Germany) and [https://www.keequant.com KEEQuant] (Germany). Several other companies also have active research programs, including [[KETS Quantum Security]] (UK), [[Hewlett-Packard|HP]], [[IBM]], [[Mitsubishi]], [[NEC]] and [[Nippon Telegraph and Telephone|NTT]] (See [[#External links|External links]] for direct research links).

In 2004, the world's first bank transfer using quantum key distribution was carried out in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]].<ref>http://www.secoqc.net/downloads/pressrelease/Banktransfer_english.pdf {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309095431/http://www.secoqc.net/downloads/pressrelease/Banktransfer_english.pdf |date=9 March 2013 }} ''secoqc.net''</ref> Quantum encryption technology provided by the Swiss company [[Id Quantique]] was used in the Swiss canton (state) of Geneva to transmit ballot results to the capital in the national election occurring on 21 October 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.technewsworld.com/story/59793.html|title=Swiss Call New Vote Encryption System 'Unbreakable'|last=Jordans|first=Frank|date=12 October 2007|publisher=technewsworld.com|access-date=8 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071209214958/http://www.technewsworld.com/story/59793.html |archive-date=2007-12-09}}</ref> In 2013, [[Battelle Memorial Institute]] installed a QKD system built by ID Quantique between their main campus in Columbus, Ohio and their manufacturing facility in nearby Dublin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/10/14/quantum-key/|title=Unbreakable encryption comes to the U.S|last=Dillow|first=Clay|date=14 October 2013|publisher=fortune.cnn.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014104149/http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/10/14/quantum-key/|archive-date=14 October 2013}}</ref> Field tests of Tokyo QKD network have been underway for some time.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Sasaki | first1 = M. | display-authors = etal | title = Field test of quantum key distribution in the Tokyo QKD Network | journal = Optics Express | year = 2011 | volume = 19 | issue = 11| pages = 10387–10409 | doi = 10.1364/OE.19.010387 | pmid = 21643295 | arxiv = 1103.3566 | bibcode = 2011OExpr..1910387S | s2cid = 593516 }}</ref>