Secured communications
Encryption keys exchanged between nodes with any interception detectable, and traffic protected by two independent layers.
The SQS Platform
Quantum-secure network nodes you connect to, delivered as infrastructure
Secured Quantum Services (SQS) designs, deploys, and operates multi-vendor quantum-secure network nodes. SQS does not build quantum computers. It makes quantum power accessible to the systems you already run, and SQS handles the physics.
What the Platform delivers
Assured timing
Synchronization distributed from a quantum optical clock, independent of GPS.
Protected transport
Your traffic moves between sites through SQS nodes. Your applications are not modified.
Connection without system replacement
SQS nodes are deployed in pairs. Your traffic moves through them, and the Platform's protection applies to it. No system is replaced or rewritten. As quantum sensing and computing mature, they are deployed through the same infrastructure. You connect once, and the Platform grows underneath you.
What runs on the Platform
Each capability is listed with its status at the live sites. A capability is marked as running at a site only once it is running there.
Quantum key distribution
- What it does
- Encryption keys are exchanged between SQS nodes over metropolitan fiber. Any attempt to intercept the exchange is detectable. That protection comes from physics, and it does not weaken as computers get faster.
- What it protects against
- Keys collected today and broken later, once a quantum computer can do it.
- Status
- Running at Albuquerque, New Mexico and Mesa, Arizona, exchanging keys between the nodes.
Dual-layer quantum-safe encryption
- What it does
- Traffic is protected by two independent layers: NIST post-quantum cryptography, the algorithms the U.S. government selected for national security systems, and a partner-validated obfuscation layer whose security does not depend on computing power. An adversary must defeat both at once.
- What it protects against
- A future break of any single algorithm. NIST deprecated SIKE during its own selection process.
- Status
- In integration at the live sites.
Quantum random number generation
- What it does
- Key material is drawn from a quantum source, so the randomness behind every key cannot be predicted or reproduced.
- What it protects against
- Keys that are weaker than they look because the randomness behind them was not random enough.
- Status
- Available to the Platform.
Quantum timing
- What it does
- A quantum optical clock in the racks distributes synchronization to the systems that depend on it. It does not rely on GPS, so timing holds when GPS is jammed, spoofed, or unavailable.
- What it is for
- Financial markets, settlement systems, and any distributed operation that needs one trusted time.
- Status
- Running at Albuquerque, New Mexico, distributing synchronization from a quantum optical clock.
Built for standards that will change
The Platform is built to move traffic between classical encryption, post-quantum cryptography, and quantum-delivered keys as standards change and algorithms age. NIST deprecated SIKE during its own selection process. No algorithm is permanent, and the Platform does not depend on any single one.
Start with one data flow
A pilot covers one of your own systems or data flows. We agree the scope and the conditions before anything is installed, and the pilot concludes with results measured against what we agreed upon.