Random Numbers

Quantis is a hardware random number generator exploiting an elementary quantum optics process to provide high quality randomness for cryptographic, gaming and other applications.

Quantis exists in five versions: a USB device, a PCI Express (PCIe) board, the Quantis Appliance, AIS31 validated devices and an OEM component. The product delivers best-in-class random bit rate of up to 16Mbps.

Quantis-USB & Quantis-PCIe

• Brochure (Quantis-USB & Quantis-PCIe)

• Quantis User Guide (v3.1)
  This document explains how to install the drivers for a Quantis USB device or PCIe board and how to generate random numbers. It also describes the use of the Quantis Library.

• Quantis Software Package

Quantis Appliance

• Brochure (Quantis Appliance)

Quantis-OEM Component

• Brochure (Quantis-OEM component)

• Quantis-OEM Application Note
  This document explains how to implement the Quantis OEM RNG component in an embedded system.

Quantum Key Factory

• Brochure (Quantum Key Factory)

Quantis QRNG Chip

• Brochure (Quantis QRNG Chip)

Randomness tests reports and certificates

• Quantis Certification Collection
  This document summarises every certification the Quantis QRNG has passed.
• AIS31 test results validation
  Quantis compliance to the AIS31 standard has been tested by the CESTI-LETI (CEA Grenoble) and validated up to level PTG.3 by the French ANSSI according to the AIS 31 methodology defined by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
• METAS Conformity Certificate
  The Quantis Random Number Generator family has been tested by the Swiss Federal Office of Metrology, also known as METAS, which is the Swiss equivalent of NIST. This testing and conformity certificate (Certificate of Conformity No 151-04687, dated May 10, 2010).
• Annex to METAS Conformity Certificate
  This document (Annex to Certificate of Conformity No 151-04687, dated May 10, 2010) is the testing report from METAS and it complements the Conformity Certificate mentioned above.
• CTL Certificate of Compliance
  This document has been issued by Compliance Testing Laboratory, one of the leading UK test houses, which has evaluated the Quantis TRNG.
• IDQ Internal Randomness Test Report
  This document presents the results of standard randomness tests, including the Diehard and NIST test suites, performed by IDQ on the random stream produced by a Quantis Random Number Generator.
• NIST SP800-22 Test Report
  This document presents the results of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) test.

Use cases

• Swiss Lottery QRNG
  Quantis True Random Number Generator in Swiss Lottery Application.
• Managed Service Provider
  Improving randomness to prevent weak keys and ensure availability
• IDQ-Certes QRNG Solution Brief
  The importance of keys in today’s crypto systems
• Trusted Quantum RNG from IDQ and Gemalto HSMs
  High-assurance key protection backed by quantum randomness

Press releases

• Quantis AIS 31 validated QRNG
  IDQ launches world’s most rigorously tested quantum random number generators

White papers on random number generation

• Random Numbers Generation using Quantum Physics
  IDQ White Paper describing the difficulties linked to generating good random numbers and how quantum physics can be used to solve this problem.
• What is the Q in QRNG
  IDQ non-technical white paper describing the importance of achieving true randomness in cryptography and other applications, and how true random numbers are generated.
• Quantis and Virtualization
  IDQ White Paper describing the use of Quantis in a virtualization platform such as VMware Player, Oracle Virtual Box and VMware ESXi.
• Randomness Extraction for the Quantis TRNG
  IDQ White Paper describing the concept of randomness extraction and how it is implemented in the Quantis software package.
• Technical paper on Randomness Extractor
  Technical paper on the choice and implementation of a randomness extractor for the Quantis TRNG.
• The crucial role of quantum random number generation in securing blockchains
  We look at the growing role of blockchains in global information exchange and discuss the crucial role that quantum random number generation plays in secure key generation.

Sample of random bits

• random1e9.dat
  (binary file, 10E9 bits, generated on June 25th 2010, Quantis-PCIe-4M s/n 10140013A510)

Selected scientific publications

This section lists a number of scientific on the Quantis random number generator family or which make use of this generator.

• (Pseudo-) Randomness
  Slides of a course taught by Klaus Sutner at Carnegie Mellon University on randomness.
• Algorithmic Randomness, Quantum Physics, and Incompleteness
  C. S. Calude
  MCU 2004, LNCS 3354, 1-17 (2005)
• Experimental Decoy State Quantum Key Distribution Over 15km
  Y. Zhao, B. Qi, X. Ma, H.-K. Lo, L. Qian
  Physical Review Letters 96, 070502 (2006)