Quantum Cryptography

Securing the future of a digital society

By adopting Quantum Key Distribution, organizations can the secure transmission of genome data in Japan. Within
protect their communication infrastructure from today’s the public sector QKD is used to provide government with
vast array of cyber-threats, as well as those of tomorrow. secure communications, in the finance industry to protect
Already, hackers are using techniques such as harvest and banking network infrastructure and in aerospace and
decrypt, where data is scraped and stored today with the aim pharmaceuticals to protect high-value long-life Intellectual
of decrypting it once they have the capability to do so through Property. Equally, in the age of IoT and smart cities, the
advances with supercomputers, the realisation of a quantum necessity for a robust, tamper-proof and ultra-sensitive
computer, or the discovery of new techniques for cryptanalysis. infrastructure is essential to ensure day-to-day life operates
With QKD, any data which requires long-term protection is not without disruption both now and in the future.
only secure in today’s IT landscape, but also future-proofed to Toshiba is the world leader in high-speed quantum
remain protected in the impending quantum age. cryptographic systems. Based on decades of scientific
Robust levels of security are required in many sectors. research, we have taken on the challenges of this unexplored
In healthcare, the technology has been applied to ensure field and have pioneered the path to practical use.

Long range High key rates Data co-existence

Toshiba QKD enables long Toshiba QKD offers market Toshiba’s Multiplexed QKD
range deployments. Toshiba leading secure key rates. solution allows QKD to be
was the first to demonstrate In fact we were the first to operated on fibre carrying
QKD over 100 km of fibre in 2004 and have demonstrate continuous multiple 10 Gb/s or 100 Gb/s
demonstrated, in lab conditions, the Twin- secure key rates exceeding 1 Mb/s (in 2008) data channels, eliminating the need for dark
Field QKD protocol capable of operating over and 10 Mb/s (in 2017). fibre and reducing the cost of deployment.
500 km of fibre

Fully automated operation Easy-to-use graphical Integrated key

with plug & play setup user interface delivery interface
Automated start-up and A simple web-browser- An integrated key
system optimisation in real based interface provides delivery interface
time, delivered through active access to both real-time is provided for secure
stabilization technology, that allows the and historical performance data. key delivery. This is compatible with
system to distribute key material continuously leading encryptors, and other applications
without any user intervention in even the most using ETSI industry standards.
challenging operating conditions.
Product details Multiplexed QKD System Long-Distance QKD System

Two variants are available: Key Exchange Toshiba T12 protocol (efficient BB84 protocol with decoy states
Protocol and phase encoding)
a Multiplexed QKD System
with O-band quantum channel, Quantum 1310 nm 1550 nm
Wavelength
which removes the need for
dark fibre when operating on Fibre Single fibre pair or Two fibres required
Requirement single bidirectional fibre
a ‘lit’ optical fibre; and a Long-
Distance QKD System with Multiplexing Option to multiplex multi-channel Limited-bandwidth multiplexing
Compatibility C-band DWDM customer data with supported
C-band quantum channel for up to +20 dBm1 total launch power
the longest possible range.
Secure Key 300 kb/s at 10dB channel loss 300 kb/s at 10 dB channel loss
Rate
Maximum Loss 30 dB (1310 nm) specified 30 dB (1550 nm) specified
(using ideal SM fibre)
Detection Proprietary self-differencing semiconductor detectors
Technology
Security Key failure probability < 10 -10, corresponding to less than once
Parameter in 30,000 years
Monitoring SNMP v2 & v3, GUI, CLI
functions
Key Delivery Integrated Key Delivery Interface to provide keys to encryptors and
Interface other applications supporting ETSI GS QKD 014 industry standard
key delivery API

Standards CE, UKCA: B SI EN 55032, BSI EN 55035, BSI EN 61000-3-2, BSI EN 61000-3-3,
BSI EN 63000, BSI EN IEC 62368-1, BSI EN IEC 60825-1,
BSI EN IEC 60825-2
FCC: 47 CFR, Part 15 FDA: 21 CFR, Part J

Dimensions Standard 19’’ rack mount (3U height)

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Operators should ensure all system deployments adhere to current laser safety limits

Network Integration data subsystem

data subsystem
data subsystem
data subsystem

100G DWDM 100G DWDM

Toshiba’s Multiplexed QKD systems 100G DWDM
AES encrypted
100G DWDM
data AES encrypted data
include add/drop filters for simple data AES encryption/ 100G data
100G data AES encryption/ data
AES encryption/
decryption AES encryption/
decryption
integration into existing fibre decryption decryption
networks: all C-band user traffic can
be passed through the unit without Data
Data
requiring additional multiplexing
Encryption key
hardware. Encryption
exchangekey
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The schematic (right) shows an
Key distribution and encryption
example use case, with an AES
encryptor obtaining keys from a data subsystem data subsystem
data subsystem data subsystem
Multiplexed QKD system to secure
data 100G 100G data
high-bandwidth data streams. data
data
100G 100G data
data
100G 100G
DWDM

DWDM

data 100G 100G data

DWDM

DWDM

fibre
Fibre
100G 100G
100G Fibre 100G

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Physical layer

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