Requirements of a Quantum Key Distribution Reference Platform. JRC Project 867 Quantum Cryptography Study

Short JRC technical report (EUR 27039 EN) by Lewis, Ferigato and Breitenbach. Produced under a 2014 JRC quantum cryptography project, it sets out the characteristics that a QKD reference platform, meaning a laboratory or network of laboratories evaluating QKD systems and reporting results publicly or privately, would need in order to be useful to customers, manufacturers and policy-makers. A separate feasibility study was planned as a companion deliverable.

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