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Cambridge Quantum launches Quantum Origin

Cambridge Quantum (CQ) is launching Quantum Origin – the world's first commercially available cryptographic key generation platform based on verifiable quantum randomness.

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It is the first commercial product built using a noisy, intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computer and has been built to secure the world's data from both current and advancing threats to current encryption.

Randomness is critical to securing current security solutions as well as protecting systems from the future threat of quantum attacks. These attacks will further weaken deterministic methods of random number generation, as well as methods that are not verifiably random and from a quantum source.

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Today's systems are protected by encryption standards such as RSA and AES. Their resilience is based on the inability to "break" a long string from a random number generator (RNG). Today's RNGs, however, lack true, verifiable randomness; the numbers being generated aren't as unpredictable as thought, and, as a result, such RNGs have been the point of failure in a growing number of cyber attacks. To add to this, the potential threat of quantum attacks is now raising the stakes further, incentivising criminals to steal encrypted data passing over the internet, with a view to decrypting it later using quantum computers. So-called "hack now, decrypt later" attacks.

Quantum Origin is a cloud-hosted platform that protects against these current and future threats. It uses the unpredictable nature of quantum mechanics to generate cryptographic keys seeded with verifiable quantum randomness from Quantinuum's H-Series quantum computers, Powered by Honeywell. It supports traditional algorithms, such as RSA or AES, as well as post-quantum cryptography algorithms currently being standardised by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST).

"We have been working for a number of years now on a method to efficiently and effectively use the unique features of quantum computers in order to provide our customers with a defence against adversaries and criminals now and in the future once quantum computers are prevalent," said Ilyas Khan, CEO of Quantinuum and Founder of Cambridge Quantum. He added "Quantum Origin gives us the ability to be safe from the most sophisticated and powerful threats today as well as threats from quantum computers in the future."

Duncan Jones, head of cybersecurity at Cambridge Quantum, said: "When we talk about protecting systems using quantum-powered technologies, we're not just talking about protecting them from future threats. From large-scale takedowns of organisations, to nation state hackers and the worrying potential of 'hack now, decrypt later' attacks, the threats are very real today, and very much here to stay. Responsible enterprises need to deploy every defense possible to ensure maximum protection at the encryption level today and tomorrow."

With Quantum Origin, when an organisation requires quantum-enhanced keys to be generated, it can now make a call via an API. Quantum Origin generates the keys before encrypting them with a transport key and securely relaying them back to the organisation. To give organisations a high-level of assurance that their encryption keys are as unpredictable as possible, Quantum Origin tests the entire output from the quantum computers, ensuring that each key is seeded from verifiable quantum randomness.

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These keys are then simple and easy to integrate within customers' existing systems because they're provided in a format that can be consumed by traditional cybersecurity systems and hardware. This end-to-end approach ensures key generation is on-demand and is capable of scaling with use, all while remaining secure.

Quantum Origin keys should be used in any scenario where there is a need for strong cybersecurity. At launch, CQ will offer Quantum Origin to financial services companies and vendors of cybersecurity products before expanding into other high priority sectors, such as telecommunications, energy, manufacturing, defence and government.
 

 

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