TU Quantum Drop: Cloud Storage and File Sharing with Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Algorithms
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At the end of July, knowing that the final versions of the NIST algorithms for Post-Quantum Cryptography (Post-Quantum Cryptography) were coming, we released the private beta of another of the innovation projects that we run at Tu.com and that has to do with Quantum Computing, called Quantum Drop.
Quantum Drop is a service that aims to get the most out of PQC algorithms for storing documents in Cloud Computing environments and sharing files securely… even in the face of the possible arrival of Quantum Computers.
Figure 2: NIST PQC Time-Line
As you know, the U.S. government, at the end of 2022 launched the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act, to make a security plan to protect U.S. government systems from the eventual arrival of Quantum Computers, which will shatter current encryption algorithms.
This is not only being done by the U.S. government, and companies are also working on it. We have been working for years on applying quantum encryption to communications, and on projects to detect insecure software and protocols to quantum computers, to have information on what to change to Post-Quantum Encryption (PQC) algorithms, to Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) systems, or where to start applying Quantum Random Number Generators (QRNG).
In fact, the folks at Telefonica Tech are already doing these types of projects for many companies around the world that don’t want to wait for the wave of an eventual arrival of Quantum Computers to catch up with them without a clear strategy of what is at risk, and what the plan is to change everything.
And of course, from the innovation area of Telefónica Innovación Digital we have been working for some time on tools and solutions, one of them being Qunatum Drop. We are also fortunate to have Ignacio Cirac, one of the greats in this world, close to us.
Figure 7: Ignacio Cirac giving a lecture on Quantum Technology
Internally for us it had other code names, and was several projects in parallel that have become Quantum Drop, where a file is synchronized with the cloud using communications with PQE algorithms, stored encrypted with PQE, and shared with recipient using encryption key exchange.
Figure 8: Beta of Quantum Drop
Now the project is in private beta, and we are looking for Beta Testers who want to be part of the team to give feedback on the solution, so if you want to sign up you can do it now on the Quantum Drop website at Tu.com.
Figure 9: Becoming a Quantum Drop beta tester
We know that Quantum Computers have a while to go, but from now on you will see how all the products we launch at Tu.Com and Telefónica will be quantum proofread, to make sure that we are building technology that is gradually ready to live with a world of quantum computing that we have been expecting for some time, but for which we are not yet fully prepared.
Figure 10: Becoming a beta tester of Quantum Drop
If you want to start learning about these technologies and how they apply to the digital world we live in, sign up for the Quantum Drop private beta… and to the next ones we will be launching, you will see that there will be many more.
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Original content by “El lado del mal“.
Chief Digital Officer of Telefónica and CEO of Telefónica Innovación Digital.
www.elladodelmal.com
