Quantum Random Number Generation

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 four versions: a USB device, a PCI Express (PCIe) board (Legacy 4M & 16M and New 40M & 240M), a Quantis Appliance, and as a QRNG Chip. The product delivers best-in-class random bit rate of up to 232Mbps.

Quantis-USB & Quantis-PCIe

• Brochure (New Generation Quantis PCIe-40M & Quantis 240-M)
• Brochure (Legacy Quantis-USB & Quantis-PCIe 4M and 16M)

• 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 2.0)
• Application Note: Quantum Technologies for 5G

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).
• 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.

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
• PokerMatch QRNG
  Random Number Generation for Online Poker
• Central Bank: Digital Trust Platform
  Digital money generation for central bank
• Banking: NS&I QRNG
  NS&I takes a quantum leap for its Premium Bonds by choosing IDQs QRNG for its fifth generation ERNIE machine.
• Telecom Service Provider: SK Telecom 5G Authentication Server
  Improving 5G security: User authentication relying on QRNG

Press releases

• Quantis AIS 31 validated QRNG
  IDQ launches world’s most rigorously tested quantum random number generators
• Quantis QRNG Chip: AEC-Q100 certification
  IDQ’s Quantis QRNG Chip has obtained AEC-Q100 certification, demonstrating its resistance to harsh automotive environments
• IDQ launches two high performance QRNG PCIe cards, based on its latest QRNG technology
  IDQ adds two high throughput QRNG PCIe cards to its Quantis product family. They provide 40Mbps and 240Mbps entropy data rates and integrate NIST compliant post-processing.

White papers on random number generation

• Quantis QRNG chips physical model and test results
  IDQ White Paper describing the processes used in IDQ QRNG chip to generate true and unpredictable randomness based on Quantum physics. It also provides test results performed on IDQ chip output, demonstrating the high quality of its entropy source.
• Random Numbers Generation using Quantum Physics
  IDQ White Paper gives an overview of the applications requiring random numbers and discusses the definition of randomness.
• 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.
• Quantum versus Classical Random Number Generators
  In this white paper, we compare two different categories of True RNGs: classical TRNGs and Quantum RNGs (QRNGs). We demonstrate that QRNGs are safer and more robust than classical TRNGs because the quantum entropy source is based on a simple, controlled and, most importantly, provably secure physical process.

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)