ETSI, the independent, not-for-profit internationally recognized standards body dealing with telecommunications, broadcasting and other electronic communications networks and services, have just published their latest White Paper: Implementation Security of Quantum Cryptography – Introduction, Challenges, Solutions. The paper was authored with significant input by our Quantum Communications Hub colleagues (Director Tim Spiller; quantum networking lead and Chair of the QKD Industry Specification Group at ETSI, TREL’s Andrew Shields; Rupesh Kumar;  NPL’s Christopher Chunnilall and Alastair Sinclair), industrial partners (BT’s Andrew Lord and Catherine White; ID Quantique’s Bruno Huttner; TREL’s Marco Lucamarini, Zhiliang Yuan and Martin Ward), and members of external advisory board (Norbert Lütkenhaus, University of Waterloo) along with contributions by experts at Telecom-ParisTech, Paris, France,  Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM), Torino, Italy, NIST, USA, the  National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, and more.

The White Paper is available to read through this link