Whitewood Encryption Systems Announces the Awarding of a U.S. Patent for Its Secure Multi-Party Communication with Quantum Ke...
March 23 2015 - 3:00AM
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- Patent awarded to inventors Richard
Hughes, Jane Nordholt and Glen Peterson, who developed the
technology while serving at Los Alamos National Laboratory
(LANL).
- Whitewood Encryption has exclusively
licensed the technology from LANL as part of the company’s efforts
to build holistic, enterprise solutions, including generating and
managing entropy as well as quantum key management (QKM).
Whitewood Encryption Systems, Inc., a builder of next-generation
systems of data encryption that leverage advanced cryptography
technologies emerging from U.S. centers of research excellence,
announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has
issued U.S. Patent No. 8,929,554, with claims covering methods and
systems for secure multi-party communication that are compatible
with various key distribution protocols, including quantum key
distribution (QKD).
The technology covered by the patent is designed to provide a
scalable, cost-effective solution for bringing the advantages of
QKD, which include forward security and low latency, to key
management for networks with multiple users. The patent was awarded
to inventors Richard Hughes, Jane Nordholt, and Glen Peterson, the
scientists who developed the technology while working at Los Alamos
National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico. Whitewood has obtained an
exclusive license to the technology from LANL.
“Our invention reduces the cost and increases the practicality
of network QKD immensely, relative to previous approaches,” said
Hughes. “With this technology, enterprises have an opportunity to
advance to quantum key management, or QKM, for networks, supporting
a broad range of security functions, encryption, authentication and
signatures.”
Traditional approaches to QKD for networks required a dedicated
point-to-point link between each pair of users, leading to
redundancy of resources. In contrast, Whitewood’s new QKM approach
offers the advantages of quantum key distribution even to users who
have no direct quantum link. The technology can also be applied as
an overlay to existing optical networks, eliminating the need for a
dedicated optical communications infrastructure.
“The ideas embodied in this patent are game-changing. They move
QKD from a novel point-to-point technique to a modern networked QKM
solution,” said Nordholt.
“This invention complements Whitewood’s portfolio of
intellectual property in the quantum key management space, offering
a quantum physics-based alternative to traditional cryptographic
practices,” said John Serafini, Vice President at Allied Minds
(LSE: ALM), the parent company of Whitewood. “This patent will work
in tandem with other IP at Whitewood to generate a secure, trusted
communications protocol that helps to reduce the vulnerabilities
present in current encryption services, and make quantum
communications a standard in secure multi-party information
exchange.”
The patent describes communication protocols that can be used by
groups of devices to communicate securely with each other using
quantum cryptography. These protocols, and the devices that
implement them, have the potential to make quantum technology less
expensive and more readily available in the future.
"The newly formed partnership between Los Alamos National
Laboratory and Whitewood Encryption Systems represents a major step
forward for the field. By bringing together leading researchers in
networked quantum communications with top executives in cloud
computing and enterprise IT, we will leverage decades of
cutting-edge research to develop and deploy next-generation
solutions for data security," said Raymond Newell, R&D
Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Whitewood is a subsidiary company of Allied Minds Federal
Innovations (AMFI), the division of Allied Minds dedicated to
commercializing federal intellectual property. More information on
Whitewood can be found at www.whitewoodencryption.com, and details
about the Allied Minds Federal Innovations portfolio can be found
at www.alliedminds.com/subsidiaries/AMFI.
About Whitewood Encryption Systems, Inc.
Whitewood Encryption Systems, Inc. is building the next
generation of advanced data encryption systems with unprecedented
security, computational efficiency, and trusted performance.
Building upon a base of quantum cryptography capabilities developed
over the course of the past two decades at Los Alamos National
Laboratory, Whitewood’s data encryption systems aim to provide
network defenders with enhanced security through scalable,
cost-effective and low-latency solutions. Whitewood is part of the
Allied Minds Federal Innovations portfolio, a compilation of
high-technology companies focused on building solutions to cyber
and mobile security challenges by commercializing innovations
developed at leading research centers throughout the U.S. federal
research community. More information on Whitewood can be found at
www.whitewoodencryption.com.
About Allied Minds
Allied Minds (LSE:ALM) is an innovative U.S. science and
technology development and commercialization company. Operating
since 2006, Allied Minds forms, funds, manages and builds products
and businesses based on innovative technologies developed at
leading U.S. universities and federal research institutions. Allied
Minds serves as a diversified holding company that supports its
businesses and product development with capital, central management
and shared services. More information about the Boston-based
company can be found at www.alliedminds.com.
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ArcPoint Strategic CommunicationsChristine Dunn, 617-484-1660
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