ID Quantique

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ID Quantique SA

Company type	Private (venture funded)
Industry	Quantum Cryptography Random Number Generation Photon Counting
Founded	Geneva, Switzerland (2001; 23 years ago (2001))
Headquarters	Geneva, GE , Switzerland
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Nicolas Gisin Grégoire Ribordy Hugo Zbinden
Website	idquantique.com

ID Quantique (IDQ) is a Swiss company, based in Geneva, Switzerland, and provides quantum key distribution (QKD) systems, quantum safe network encryption, single photon counters, and hardware random number generators.

It was founded in 2001 as a spin-off of the Group of Applied Physics at the University of Geneva.

The company is structured in three business units:

• The quantum safe cryptography division
• The photon counting division
• The quantum random number generation division