GSN March 2016 Digital Edition

Whitewood Encryption Systems
announces third patent from
Los Alamos National Laboratory
technology transfer
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bers by capturing apparently random
events from the local physical
environment, such as user behavior,
network activity or other sources of
noise.
“It’s an important part of our mission
to help technology move from
the lab environment to full-scale
commercialization,” said Duncan
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these lay the foundation for a strong
cryptographic systems. These systems
are required to protect trusted
transactions across the public and
private sector today, and to guard
against future technology breakthroughs
that may make current
cryptography approaches obsolete.”
Whitewood is a subsidiary com-
More information on Whitewood
can be found at: www.whitewoodencryption.com.
About Whitewood Encryption
Systems, Inc.
Whitewood® is addressing one of
the most fundamental challenges
associated with all modern cryptosystems
– entropy management.
Whitewood’s products exploit
quantum mechanics to meet demand
for high-quality entropy used
for random data and key genera-
of quantum cryptography capabilities
developed over the course of
the past two decades at Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Whitewood
addresses operational vulnerabilities
in any application that employs
encryption, certificates and keys in
clouds, devices and browsers. More
information on Whitewood can be
found at: www.whitewoodencryption.com.
About Los Alamos National
Laboratory (www.lanl.gov)
Los Alamos National Laboratory, a
multidisciplinary research institution
engaged in strategic science
on behalf of national security, is
operated by Los Alamos National
Security, LLC, a team composed of
partment
of Energy’s National Nuclear
Security Administration. Los
Alamos enhances national security
by ensuring the safety and reliability
oping
technologies to reduce threats
from weapons of mass destruction,
and solving problems related to energy,
environment, infrastructure,
health and global security concerns.
About Allied Minds
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Intelsat General and L-3 Communication
Systems-West demonstrate
automatic beam switching
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science and technology developers,
president of L-3 Communication
Systems-West. “These results mark
an important milestone in providing
our customers the ability to modernize
their existing assets within today’s
fiscally constrained defense budget
environment.”
“This demonstration proves that
modems using beam-switching
tions
at very high data rates on high-
ler,
vice president, Satellite Networks
& Space Services at Intelsat General.
“This capability is an important step
in the evolution of satellite communications
for these critical platforms.
ment and commercialization company.
Operating since 2006, Allied
Minds forms, funds, manages and
builds products and businesses
based on innovative technologies
sities
and federal research institutions.
Allied Minds serves as a
diversified holding company that
supports its businesses and product
development with capital, central
management and shared services.
More information about the Bostonbased
company can be found at www.
alliedminds.com.