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Sharing quantum secrets

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A cost-effective architecture for quantum cryptography has been demonstrated in which a single receiver positioned at a network-hub node is shared by many end users to exchange secret encryption keys. See Letter p.69

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  1. Rupert Ursin is at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, A-1090 Vienna, Austria, and at the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna.,

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  2. Richard Hughes is in the Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.,

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Ursin, R., Hughes, R. Sharing quantum secrets. Nature 501, 37–38 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/501037a

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