Government & Military

How and Why Quantum Cryptography Works
The security of Quantum Cryptography lies in its ability to exchange the encryption key with absolute security . By sending the key encoded at the single photon level on a photon-by-photon basis, quantum mechanics guarantees that the act of an eavesdropper intercepting a photon, even if it is just to observe or to read it, irretrievably changes the information encoded on that photon. Therefore, the eavesdropper can neither copy nor clone a photon nor read the information encoded on the photon without modifying it, a process that is provably detectable. The use of quantum keys and truly random numbers makes data encryption uncompromisingly secure.

Federal Government Mandate: Future Proof Data Networks with Realtime Intrusion Detection
As the threat profile continues to grow, the need to increase the level of network security has never been greater. The United States Government, led by agencies such as the Army Research Organization (ARO), The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), The Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA), The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have made the real world deployment of quantum cryptography a top priority. (See the Quantum Cryptography Roadmap at the Los Alamos website: http://qist.lanl.gov/qcrypt_map.shtml)

MagiQ Technologies has leveraged this important work to deliver the first product based on quantum cryptography: Quantum Private Network (QPN). MagiQ's QPN product is now available for testbed applications and systems integration projects. The QPN 8505 is scheduled to go through the NIST's FIPs140.2 L2 cryptographic validation process this year. This procedure will certify QPN 8505 for deployment in sensitive but unclassified networks. Design and testing of networks that include QPN can begin prior to full FIPs 140.2 certification. Please contact MagiQ directly if you have requirements for the use of QPN on classified networks.

QPN 8505's architecture is based on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). QPN is designed so that industry standard VPN IPSec protection is always present. Layered on top is the added security of Quantum Cryptography.