Whitewood Unveils it Next Generation Entropy Engine By Bikash Chatterjee
August 2015- Whitewood Encryption Systems announced the release of its proprietary next generation entropy engine at Black Hat. The Whitewood Entropy Engine™ solves the problem of entropy generation. It provides random data in a convenient PCIe card form factor. At its core is a patent-pending quantum entropy source that exploits the immutable laws of quantum mechanics to create true unpredictability. Capable of delivering 200Mbps, the Entropy Engine can satisfy the demands of even the highest-performance cryptosystems.
Whitewood Entropy Engine
Designed for any application that incorporates cryptography or relies on high-quality random data, the Whitewood Entropy Engine removes the risk of existing entropy sources failing to satisfy demand or becoming deterministic. Whether using low-level functions such as encryption, digital signatures, and certificates, or higher-level security protocols such as SSL/TLS or SSH, or raw random data for gaming and simulators, the Entropy Engine provides a critical security foundation and basis of trust.
Richard Moulds, Vice President of Business Development and Strategy at Whitewood states “Whether in critical business applications, corporate networks or out on the Web, maximum security requires that we improve the quality and quantity of entropy used to generate random data. In mobile devices, browsers and sterile datacenters, access to entropy is inconsistent, notoriously hard to measure and often taken for granted. It’s time to take control of entropy and deliver the security on which we all depend. Whitewood’s quantum-powered Entropy Engine is designed to meet that need.”
The core technology for the entropy engine was developed based upon more than two decades of cryptographic research at Los Alamos National laboratories and commercialized through Whitewoods partner Allied Minds.
The PCIe cards were made available at the Black hat conference for evaluation and Whitewood plans to ship product commercially at the end of third quarter this year.
