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Nature

A step towards global key distribution

Christian Kurtsiefer, Patrick Zarda, M. Halder, Harald Weinfurter, P.M. Gorman, P. R. Tapster, John Rarity

Published Oct 3, 2002• 350 citations
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10.1038/419450a

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