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HIGH CAPACITY QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPH FOR OPTIC NETWORKS

  • European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
  • 1 Jan 2015 to 31 Mar 2019
  • Spain

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Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Multi-regional Spain - ERDF (2014ES16RFOP002), managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER, de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos del Ministerio de Hacienda.. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Pontevedra Province (NUTS ES114); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 122,452; EU co-financing EUR 97,961.6 (co-financing rate 80%), as stated by the source. Runs 2015-01-01 to 2019-03-31. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS). Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): ENSURING THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION HAS BECOME AN ESSENTIAL SERVICE IN TODAY’S COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS. EVERY TIME WE MAKE AN ONLINE PURCHASE WITH OUR CREDIT CARDS, OR MAKE A FINANCIAL TRANSACTION USING ONLINE BANKING, WE FACE THIS PROBLEM. UNFORTUNATELY, THE SECURITY OF CLASSICAL CRYPTOGRAPHY IS OFTEN BASED ON UNPROVEN ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY. FOR EXAMPLE, THE SECURITY OF THE RSA SYSTEM-THE MOST WIDELY USED PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPH SCHEME TODAY-IS BASED ON THE DIFFICULTY OF BREAKING DOWN LARGE NUMBERS INTO ITS PRIME FACTORS. AS A RESULT, CONVENTIONAL CRYPTOGRAPHING IS VULNERABLE TO BOTH ALGORITHMIC ADVANCES AND OUR ABILITY TO CALCULATE. IN FACT, A QUANTUM COMPUTER COULD FACTOR LARGE NUMBERS IN POLYNOMIC TIME. in CONTRASTE, THE QUANTICAL CRIPTOGRAPHY OR, MORE CONCRETENTLY, the quantic KEY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS (SCDC) allow to achieve the GRIAL HEALTH OF THE CRIPTOGRAPHY, THIS IS, ABSOLUTE SAFETY IN THE COMMUNICATIONS INDEPENDENTLY OF THE COMPUTATIONAL CAPACITY OF THE ADVERSARIO, THE WHAT IS ONLY LIMITED by the Laws of Physics. SINCE THE APPEARANCE OF THE SCDCS, THERE HAVE BEEN MANY EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS, AND ALSO TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES, WHICH HAVE CARRIED OUT THEIR PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS ALREADY EXIST IN THE MARKET. HOWEVER, IN ORDER FOR THESE DEVICES TO BE USED ON A LARGE SCALE (AND NOT ONLY TO PROTECT THE MOST SENSITIVE COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN BANKS, GOVERNMENT ENTITIES OR COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN INFRASTRUCTURES OF NATIONAL INTEREST), IT IS NECESSARY TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF THESE PROTOTYPES. In PARTICULAR, YOUR TRANSMISION DISTANCY (which is currently lent to 200-300KM) and its SECRETA KEY TRANSMISSION TASA (TORN 1 MBPS IN ULTIMA GENERATION SYSTEMS), NUMERS THAT ARE CLARARLY INSUFICIENTS FOR MY APPLICATIONS. THE FIRST QUESTION (this IS, INCREMENT THE DISTANCY OF TRANSMISION) CAN BE RESOLVED, IN PRINCIPLE, using networks of communication with reliable nodes, QUANTICATIONS VIA SATELITE COMMUNICATIONS, OR [shortened; the full text is on the Kohesio page]

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The project "HIGH CAPACITY QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPH FOR OPTIC NETWORKS" was co-funded by the EU with a budget of EUR 122,452, focusing on enhancing information confidentiality in communications. It ran from January 1, 2015, to March 31, 2019, in Pontevedra Province, Spain. Suggested technology pillar: communication. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.

Source: kohesio.ec.europa.eu · checked 21 Oct 2026 · AI-assisted summary