Overview of Quantum Technology Landscape: Quantum Base

Quantum Base - a world leader in Quantum Security; the solutions of the future will be fortified by our world leading innovation.

We have invented a suite of products providing authentication, identification and security across communications networks, devices and products. Our quantum identities (Q-ID’s) use the unique arrangements of atoms and the imperfections in these structures to create devices, which are simple, small and cheap. They have the highest bit density, the best integration potential and use the least amount of resources possible; furthermore they can be easily inserted into existing standard CMOS or III-V manufacturing processes. The products can be used independently to provided authentication and identification, or can be deployed within existing solution architectures, harnessing the benefits that quantum technologies bring.

They offer the ultimate in provable security, have low power usage, the smallest footprint possible, have low bandwidth requirements and all without the need for large scale computations, the accompanying infrastructure or processing requirements. 

Physically unclonable functions (PUF’s) are an emerging technology for the secure provision of public (security) keys. They provide unique information derived from random physical characteristics, and have many advantages over conventional passwords or software keys in public key cryptography. But despite their obvious advantages, existing classical PUF technologies are often expensive, large, can be difficult to implement or are potentially susceptible to sophisticated attacks.

Our Q-ID’s enable simple electronic or optical measurements to be taken, and the unique identity derived is dependent on the structure’s atomic make-up, in effect a quantum fingerprint, that cannot be copied, cloned or simulated, providing unique identities or cryptographic keys on demand. 

The electronic solution can be embedded in a microprocessor to provide a unique fingerprint for authentication and encryption, and is suitable for direct integration into simple semiconductor devices

The optical solution can be read using a standard smart phone and a cheap filter. This provides a simple system that can be used to optically scan any product to verify its authenticity or legitimacy. The optical device uses two dimensional “graphene like” sheets, and because each device has a unique identity, each one can be addressed individually and directly using Internet or new media technologies.

In addition to the suite outlined above, we have developed a Quantum lock, and we are continuing to build a portfolio of products that can be used independently or together in networked environments, using cutting edge quantum physics and two dimensional “graphene like” materials, that use off the shelf equipment, operating at room temperature and on a Nano scale, that has no incremental cost once volume production is achieved. 

In the development of our solutions, we seek to address two major security concerns:

1. Global product Authentication

Figures released in 2016 by the OECD and the EU Intellectual Property Office state that imports of all counterfeit and pirated goods globally are worth nearly half a trillion U.S. dollars; across such diverse verticals as automotive, aerospace, fashion, sports, technology, foodstuffs, and pharmaceuticals. Those technologies deemed to be at the heart of stopping counterfeiting are not working.

In a world’s first, Quantum Base has developed a Quantum physically unclonable function (Q PUF) the quantum identity or (Q-ID) using “Quantum Mechanical Tunnelling”. With this we have:

Created unique physical quantum ‘signatures’, which can be read with a standard smart phone and cheap filter, this is at the core of our identification and authentication technology.

Overcome the security failings of existing security systems such holograms, PUF’s such as SRAM or Delay PUFs, which rely on measurement of physical properties in existing circuitry, rendering them susceptible to sophisticated attacks.

Developed a PUF based device, our Q-IDs, which cannot be copied, cloned or simulated: the laws of quantum physics guarantee this.

As outlined, each device has a unique ID, using quantum confinement and the inherent randomness within the atomic make up of two-dimensional ”graphene like” materials this provides so their uniqueness is determined by the pattern the atoms make. Our Q-ID’s are defined at the fundamental length scale, being atomically unique, making them impossible to copy, clone or simulate