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PROJET SECOQC
SECOQC aims at solving "trust and security" problems. Thus the project will contribute to one of the most urgent challenges in the Information Society: secure communication
With this project a novel crypto technology will be developed, its applicability for the secure exchange of digital contents for a wide spectrum of applications will be proven, and the environment for economic use will be established
The objectives of the SECOQC project are to specify, design, and validate the feasibility of an open, Quantum Key Distribution infrastructure dedicated to secure communication as well as to fully develop the basic enabling technology
The full range of developments necessary to achieve this overall goal will be carried out within the project. These cover the following areas:
* Develop fully functional Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) devices. These would realise a QKD primitive i.e. continual generation of renewed identical keys on demand at two distinct locations (e.g. secure centres) situated at short to medium range distances;
* Develop a novel security architecture by designing abstract-level cryptographic protocols, which allow secure long-range communication on the basis of the highly secure QKD primitive;
* Design a suitable QKD based network architecture and create an initial experimental implementation;
* Evaluate the capacities of this experimental system for network security;
* Finally, in the perspective of the future internet economy and post third generation telephony, evaluate the economic interest of this new secure network infrastructure that facilitates the sharing of secret information
Others projects
SeDgE - Security in a Digital Environment
Mercury- Metrics for Information Security Certification
TruSty - Trusted Security and privacY
Identikit
CyberCrim
ComFor - Computer Forensic
Wearcomp
Lascaux
