The threat of quantum computing capabilities over modern cryptography is becoming a reality.
There are companies that promise to introduce an estimated thousand qubit device at the beginning of the decade and bring a game changer to the cyber security sphere.
This will put at risk AES based cryptographic solutions implementing Grover and Shor algorithms by quantum devices, delivering the public/private key in mere moments. The growing world of IoT and 5G requires security to scale up in bandwidth and subscriber capacity as well as low latency communications for networks such as automated transportation – V2X, Industry 4.0, emergency services etc.
Currently offered- IKEv2, IPSec and VPN systems, even the ones that are hardware accelerated, cannot meet the growing network demands for bandwidth and subscriber scalability.
To solve this need, ENQUANTUM developed a pioneering hardware native Market Ready solution. It offers a High-Performance Crypto Engine, a solution that is all scalable, future-proof and adaptable to new emerging markets.
ENQ256 system is a hybrid-cloud based communication system, which hands over a modern way of cryptography – FPGA as a Service accelerated commercial cloud infrastructure enables high-performance VPN functionality at minimal cost per subscriber and consumed energy. To allow high performance and scalability, a custom network protocol had to be developed and was tailored to the cryptographic engine. Utilizing hash-based cryptographic functions with a tailored binary network protocol provides unprecedented performance advantages as well as operational flexibility.
The performance boost comes from a highly parallelized data pipeline inside the FPGA, using high performance embedded system memory allowing sub-microsecond latency for a full packet process. This advantage creates an ideal system for ultra-low latency highly reliable communications channels required by IoT and 5G networks. Where modern hash-based cryptographic solutions use a highly serialized process, a reduction in performance is observed due to the increased response time of the cryptographic modules.
The ENQ256 system was built to solve the performance and scalability issues of currently implemented VPN solutions. Utilizing Hash-based cryptographic functions with a tailored binary network protocol, provides unprecedented performance advantages as well as operational flexibility.
Where modern hash-based cryptographic solutions use a highly serialized hash process, a reduction of performance is observed due to the increased response time from the crypto engine.