Editing Quantum key distribution (section)

==== DARPA ====
The [[DARPA Quantum Network]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7484|title=Quantum cryptography network gets wireless link|first=Will|last=Knight|access-date=18 August 2016}}</ref> was a 10-node quantum key distribution network, which ran continuously for four years, 24 hours a day, from 2004 to 2007 in Massachusetts in the United States. It was developed by [[BBN Technologies]], [[Harvard University]], [[Boston University]], with collaboration from [[IBM Research]], the [[National Institute of Standards and Technology]], and [[QinetiQ]]. It supported a standards-based Internet [[computer network]] protected by quantum key distribution.