In a groundbreaking achievement for both Cyprus and the global cybersecurity landscape, scientists from the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) have led the successful deployment of the country’s first-ever quantum communication network. The work was carried out as part of the CYQCI (Cyprus Quantum Communication Infrastructure) project, spearheaded by Professor Kyriacos Kalli and co-funded by the European Commission and the Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy (DMRID) of Cyprus. With the technical implementation led by Dr. Mariella Minder, the first national network of its kind established quantum key distribution (QKD) links between seven critical governmental end users, providing them with infrastructure for communication of unprecedented security.
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