Resources
IETF draft draft-mwag-dske
The following Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet-Draft describes the DSKE protocol that was the inspiration for the implementation in this repository:
ID: draft-mwag-dske
Title: Distributed Symmetric Key Establishment (DSKE)
Authors: Mattia Montagna, Manfred von Willich, Melchior Aelmans, Gert Grammel
Link: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mwag-dske/
ArXiv paper Distributed Symmetric Key Establishment: A scalable, quantum-proof key distribution system
The following arXiv paper describes the DSKE protocol in more detail:
ID: arXiv:2205.00615
Title: Distributed Symmetric Key Establishment: A scalable, quantum-proof key distribution system
Authors: Hoi-Kwong Lo, Mattia Montagna, Manfred von Willich
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.00615
ArXiv paper Composable Security of Distributed Symmetric Key Establishment Protocol
The following arXiv paper provides a security proof for the DSKE protocol:
ID: arXiv:2304.13789
Title: Composable Security of Distributed Symmetric Key Establishment Protocol
Authors: Jie Lin, Manfred von Willich, Hoi-Kwong Lo
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13789
Company Quantum Bridge
Quantum Bridge is the company that published the above draft and papers and that sells a commercial implementation of the DSKE protocol. This open source implementation has been developed completely independently of and without any involvement of Quantum Bridge.
Company name: Quantum Bridge
Link: https://qubridge.io/
Paper A Secret Key Spreading Protocol for Extending ETSI Quantum Key Distribution
The following paper describes a similar protocol for relaying QKD keys using Shamir’s Secret Sharing (SSS):
Title: A Secret Key Spreading Protocol for Extending ETSI Quantum Key Distribution
Authors: Thomas Prévost, Bruno Martin, Olivier Alibart
Link: https://www.scitepress.org/Papers/2025/130771/130771.pdf
Key delivery standard ETSI GS QKD 014
The code contains a simplified implementation of the key delivery interface defined in the following standard:
ID: ETSI GS QKD 014 V1.1.1 (2019-02)
Title: Quantum Key Distribution (QKD); Protocol and data format of REST-based key delivery API
Link: https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/QKD/001_099/014/01.01.01_60/gs_qkd014v010101p.pdf
Cloud-based ETSI GS QKD 014 service QuKayDee
For a fully standards-compliant cloud-hosted implementation of the ETSI GS QKD 014 key delivery interface see:
Title: QuKayDee: A QKD network simulator, focused on APIs
Authors: Bruno Rijsman
Link: https://qukaydee.com/pages/about
Self-hosted ETSI GS QKD 014 service qkd_kme_server
For a self-hosted implementation of the ETSI GS QKD 014 interface see:
Title: ETSI-compliant Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Key Management Entity server
Authors: Thomas Prévost
Link: https://github.com/thomasarmel/qkd_kme_server