Market Applications

Public Key Cryptography is Everywhere.

All organizations have to migrate their IT/OT systems, infrastructure and data to Quantum Resistant resilience. Many ongoing projects are happening in key industries where long-term trust is critical such as Government (Defense, Health), Finance (Banking, Insurance, Key Financial Infrastructures), Operators of vital importance (Transportation, Energy, Telcos) or Manufacturing/4.0 Industry.

Quantum Safe Applications encompass Application Design, Secured Communications, Networking Infrastructure, Identity & Access Management, Digital Signature Solutions, Blockchain, Industrial IoT to name a few.

Market Solutions & Use Cases

Messaging Applications

Popular secured messaging apps used by consumers are now widely used in the Enterprise space. User transparent end to end Post-Quantum authentication and secured communications through an additional layer of quantum resistant cryptography along with Enterprise groups features are required.

See NATO Use Case

Virtual Private Network

Create a full chain of trusted communications: quantum safe VPN with quantum safe authentication.

See Banque de France Use Case

Digital Certificates Solutions

IT/OT teams use PKI for authentication and encryption, while digital certificates and signatures are vulnerable to quantum-enabled attacks. Use crypto-agility to upgrade critical assets and ensures interoperability with long term “quantum resistant” certificates, backward compatiblewith current formats.

See Major Certificate Provider Use Case

Digital Signature Solutions

Integrity of digitally signed contracts is not anymore guarantee, including the signature date. Solution is to add a quantum resistant time stamp.

See Leading European Bank Use Case

HSM Equipment & Solutions

Upgrade your HSM with a hybrid quantum resistant cryptographic Integration of CryptoNext software for a transparent use throughPKCS#11 API, whilekeeping HSM’s certification.

See Thales Use Case

Internet Of Things & Embedded System

From defense to automotive or medical IoT, systems rely on the root public key for software/firmware future-proof code signingandover-the-air updates. We enable quantum-safe algorithms to run on resource-constrained devices.

See Defense Industry Use Case

Public Key Infrastructure

PKI is a fundamental infrastructure for many use cases that needs to be upgraded with PQC due to the quantum threat. It can be implemented with simple configuration with or without HSM.

See Top-Tier Commercial Bank Use Case

Mobile Communications

Enabling quantum resistant voice, message or video calls with secured smartphones brings user transparent end to end PQ authentication and securedcommunications through an additional layer of quantum resistant cryptography.

See French MOD Use Case

Quantum Computing Infrastructure

PQC brings authentication required to secure QCI QKD (Quantum Key Distribution) network backbones.

See Orange Paris QCI Use Case

Blockchain

Blockchains use RSA or Elliptic curves algorithms for public key cryptography. Work on code structure and PQC signature schemes upgrade and bring crypto-agility, something no blockchain should be without.

Secured Quantum-Resistant Messaging

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Objective

Allowing end to end secured communications (call, video call, messaging), with an additional layer of quantum resistant cryptography and dedicated group features.

Solution

Build a quantum resistant version of messaging app based on an OpenSource quantum messagingApp though CryptoNext’s supply of its QSA messaging application plugin.

Roles

CrytoNext team did the implementation and NATO did functional and technical tests.

Banque de France Quantum Safe VPN

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Objective

Create a full chain of trust for inter-bank communications : quantum safe VPN with quantum safe authentication.

Solution

Build a quantum resistant version of messaging app based on an OpenSource quantum messagingApp though CryptoNext’s supply of its QSA messaging application plugin.

Roles

CryptoNext team did the implementation and Banque de France did functional and technical tests.

Quantum Resistant Certificates

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Objective

Allow the clients of a certificate provider to buy long term certificates with « quantum resistant » option, and in the same time, backward compatible with current format of certificates.

Solution

CryptoNext provided its QS Library based BouncyCastle Java QS Tool, and integrated with the certificate provider’s PKI (Public Key Infrastructure).

Roles

CrytoNext performed the integration & implementation.

Quantum-Resistant Time-stamping for PDF document

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Objective

Due to the quantum threat, the integrity of digitally signed contracts is not anymore guarantee,including the signature date. The objective is to add on existing contracts a quantum resistant time stamp.

Solution

Build a platform of quantum resistant time stamping in partnership with HSM producer, and with the leader of Digital Signature.

Roles

CrytoNext and Digital Signature player have done the integration work.

Quantum Safe Functionnality Module for HSM

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Objective

Allow the clients of Thales HSM (Hardware Security Module) Luna to upgrade their HSM with a hybridquantum resistant cryptographic option.

Solution

Integration of CryptoNext SDK in a «functional module» of the HSM, with a transparent use throughPKCS#11 API, while keeping EAL4+ certification of the HSM.

Roles

CryptoNext developed the HSM Luna7 Functionnality module, part of the QSA Products.

Quantum Resistant IoT Communications

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Objective

Allow hybrid post-quantum solution for weapons systems between IoT Cortex LP SOC’s for securedcommunications with hybrid PQ key echange and authentication.

Solution

CryptoNext provided its QS Library with Side-Channel Security module based IoT communications QSTool, and integrated within SOTA communication architecture.

Roles

CrytoNext supplied Library, Tools & Customs integration services.

Quantum Safe PKI

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Objective

PKI is a fundamental infrastructure for many use cases that needs to be upgraded with PQC due to the quantum threat to be able to implement business use cases.

Solution

Build a PKI Infrastructure based on EJBCA Community upgraded to hybrid PQC and test various hybrid PQ X-509 certificates with and without HSM

Roles

CryptoNext, PKI and HSM Vendors

Quantum Safe End-To-End Android Encrypted Application

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Objective

Whatsapp-like android application to send/receive encrypted documents using quantum-safe cryptography to secure the communication channel.

Solution

The application has been field tested by French special forces. This was one of the first large real-life deployment of quantum-safe cryptography on 150+ participants (military, national security, DGA,...) equipped with Samsung Galaxy smartphones in various operational scenarios. Experiments were performed with a private 4G network.

Roles

CryptoNext developed the Android PQ Application.

Quantum Safe Computing Infrastructure

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Objective

Allow QKD (Quantum Key Distribution) manages the exchange of key (Quantum Cryptography) but doesn’t solve the problematic of authentication that can be solved with PQC (Post Quantum Cryptography).

Solution

Build a QKD backbone and integrate it with PQC solution for authentication.

Roles

ParisQCI consortium lead by Orange with CryptoNext responsible for PQC/QKD integration and 10 partners including Kets, Quandela, VeriQloud.

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