The walkthrough

The network, operated.

A recording of the Phase 0 console doing real work: a constellation scaled up, contact windows rebuilding around it, a design saved and reopened, and the link rule tightened until the numbers stop flattering us. Every figure on screen is computed by the orbital simulator as it runs.

Recorded walkthrough

Access the dashboard

The live console is shared on request. You will be asked for an access code.

Recorded from the simulator described in Phase 0 of the roadmap. Orbits, contact windows and key rates are computed, not illustrated.

The product suite

Four segments. One key fabric.

Four segments of one network, each with the software that runs it: the space link, the metro rings, the fabric that pools their keys, and the record a certifier reads.

Simulated telemetry

01SKYKEY

A satellite that never holds the key.

A compact LEO payload generates entangled photon pairs and shares them both ways. Ground terminals acquire the pass, track it, and take keys for as long as the link budget allows.

skykey-ops ▸ pass

$ skyctl pass --next

AOS 04:12:07 · LOS 04:20:31

max elevation 71 deg

$ skyctl link --arm

✓ entanglement source armed

✓ decoy state BB84 · ready

Ground terminal

SKYKEY-1

Space segment

ops.skykey.dg/passLink ✓

Pass telemetry

61.5 deg

Elevation

626 km

Slant range

31.4 kb/s

Secret key rate

Pass progress5m 30s to LOS

Key block distilled · 2.1% QBERnow

Beacon lock acquired · 0.8 µrad14s

Pass operations

1The payload generates entangled pairs in orbit, holding nothing
2The terminal acquires at horizon and tracks through the pass
3Keys land with elevation, loss and error rate logged per block

02GRIDKEY

No relay that has to be trusted.

Metro rings run measurement device independent QKD over dark fibre between city nodes, closing the detector side channels that first generation networks left open.

nodes.gridkey.dg

Metro nodes

Node A · exchange12.4 dB

Node B · settlement9.8 dB

Node C · registry14.1 dB

Node inventory

MDI-QKD

Ground segment

ops.gridkey.dg/ring0 relays

Ring health

Trusted relays

1.94 %

Mean QBER

8.7 kb/s

Sifted rate

A to B12.4 dB

B to C9.8 dB

C to A14.1 dB

Ring operations

1City nodes are linked on dark fibre in a metro ring
2Measurement device independent links close detector side channels
3No intermediate node ever holds a key in the clear

03Key fabric

Quantum where there is a link. Safe everywhere else.

One key management layer pools quantum keys while links are up and carries the same endpoints on post quantum keys when none exists. Security never drops, only the source changes.

Quantum link

SKYKEY-1 · GRIDKEY

Post quantum

ML-KEM-768 · ML-DSA-65

Key sources

Key fabric

Management layer

fabric.dg/poolsε 1e-10

Key pools by endpoint

Defence command60%

Interbank settlement87%

Grid control75%

Government registry44% · PQC

QBER2.26 % of 11 % abort

Pool operations

1Quantum keys fill each pool while a link is up
2Post quantum keys carry the pool when no link reaches the site
3Every endpoint draws from one fabric, through one interface

04Provenance

Every key, traceable to the photons that made it.

Per key records of the source link, the error rate at generation, the consuming application and the moment of delivery. This is the chain a certifier replays.

Key events

Key delivered · SAE-02now

Block distilled · 1.73%5s

Pool refilled · SKYKEY-120s

Node authenticated1m

Event stream

Ledger

Immutable ledger

audit.dg/reportETSI 014

Audit report

1,284 keys

Key	Link	QBER	Consumer
0x8f768130	SKYKEY-1	1.73%	SAE-02
0x90d8d7ea	GRIDKEY A	2.96%	SAE-01
0xbab45edf	SKYKEY-1	2.22%	SAE-04
0xc664752e	GRIDKEY B	1.70%	SAE-03

Certifier view

1Each key records the link that produced it and its error rate
2Consumption is logged against the application that drew it
3A certifier can replay the whole chain, key by key

Values are generated by the simulator described in Phase 0 of the roadmap. Key delivery interfaces follow ETSI GS QKD 014.

The console

The software that operates the network

The operator view, live: a pass climbing toward closest approach, key pools filling behind it, error rate held against the security threshold, and every key accounted for.

Key fabric consolesim build 0.4.1Simulated telemetry04:12:00 UTC

A pass in progress

SKYKEY rises over the ground station and entangled pairs go down while the link budget allows. Elevation, slant range and secret key rate are tracked across the whole pass.

Downlink active

Elevation

52.3 deg

Slant range

695 km

Channel loss

26.8 dB

Time to LOS

6m 0s

Pass progress

AcquiredEntanglement source armed

SKR28.8 kb/sQBER2.30 %Pool66 %Security ε1e-10

Readouts update live from the simulator. Nothing here is a recording.