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While this pandemic takes over our lives, our work life has become difficult to cope.
01 Communique had foreseen the importance of working remotely and has adopted that culture for many years.

The massive increase in remote “at home” access, current remote protocol and encryption, products can’t keep up with demand. But 01 Communique can and is providing access to its state-of-the-art remote access product “I’m InTouch” for FREE for the next 120 days, from March 23rd to July 23rd.  This is CEO, Andrew Cheung’s way of giving back to our community in times of need and distress in order to ease working from home and help business suffer less.

Most small businesses and entrepreneurs are at risk right now but can remedy that by clicking this link to gain free access to remote access service:  https://www.accesswire.com/581503/01-Communique-Announces-120-day-Free-Usage-Offer-of-Im-InTouch-Remote-Access-Services-as-Covid-19-Expands

01 Communique announces their IronCAP X free version to be launched this April 23rd, an email encryption product for personal usage.

01 Communique has spent many years building the IronCAP Cryptographic Engine and is now ready to release IronCAP X, which is a quantum-safe email encryption product providing protection for all types of users and is designed to integrate with everyday email clients such as Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo and others.

This IronCAP X free version for personal usage is designed as a showcase of the underlying IronCAP technology. Availability of the IronCAP X Business Usage paid version will be announced shortly after. IronCAP cryptography engine is quantum safe, low cost, easy to install; and designed to replace RSA quickly and easily. 01 Communique President,  Andrew Cheung, believes IronCAP is much faster and safer than RSA and encourage users to give our product a try to see for themselves.

To read more: https://www.accesswire.com/580730/01-Communique-Announces-the-Launch-of-IronCAP-X-Free-Version-Personal-Usage-Quantum-Safe-Email-Encryption-This-April-in-Toronto

01 Communique announced together with Hitachi Solutions Create, Ltd.,  a 2-month free usage offer of DoMobile remote access services from March 2, 2020 to May 31, 2020 in Japan. This offer is to support the business community during the Coronavirus outbreak.

DoMobile is 01 Communique’s I’m InTouch remote access service that allows mobile professionals and telecommuters to connect and interact with their office computer to access the information and essential business tools they need from anywhere, anytime using any computer or wireless device with an Internet connection.

To know more see the original article: https://www.accesswire.com/viewarticle.aspx?id=579880

What is Amazon Braket?

In December 2019, Amazon launched Amazon Braket, a quantum computing service. They also launched the AWS Center for Quantum Computing and the AWS Quantum Solutions lab, a research collaboration centre helping clients adapt to quantum computing applications.

Unlike other large players in the space (Google, Microsoft, IBM); Amazon is choosing specialized partnerships to enter the market, rather than building their own quantum computer. They are working with D-Wave, IonQ and Rigetti to provide quantum computing services through their cloud.

What does Amazon Braket do?

Amazon Braket will allow developers to access and build quantum algorithms and applications through a single interface. Amazon braket is currently in preview mode, with customers needing to apply to use the service (do so here: https://pages.awscloud.com/Amazon-Braket-Preview.html)

Amazon Braket will allow a larger range of customers to access, use and benefit from quantum computing technology. Ultimately, this will result in faster adoption and development of quantum computers. As quantum computers become more developed, the need for IronCAP’s quantum-safe encryption increases. As many companies will need time to adapt to the technology, we recommend beginning your migration today to ensure your data is safe from grab-and-wait attacks.

To learn more about the Technical details of Amazon Braket’s service visit: https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2019/12/11/amazon-plugs-quantum-cloud-computing-braket-into-aws/#3b5a2c752be8

Amazon Partners Give Commentary

Speak to the implications of Amazon Braket. Quotes courtesy of Tech Crunch.

Charlie Bell, senior vice president, Utility Computing Services, AWS said, “With our Amazon Braket service and Amazon Quantum Solutions Lab, we’re making it easier for customers to gain experience using quantum computers and to work with experts from AWS and our partners to figure out how they can benefit from the technology. And with our AWS Center for Quantum Computing and academic partnerships, we join the effort across the scientific and industrial communities to help accelerate the promise of quantum computing.” (Tech Crunch, 2019).

Chad Rigetti, founder and CEO of Rigetti Computing said, “By collaborating with AWS, we will be able to deliver access to our systems to a much broader market and help accelerate the growth of this emerging industry,” (Tech Crunch, 2019).

D-Wave’s chief product officer and EVP of R&D, Alan Baratz said, “Amazon’s Braket will open the door to more smart developers who will build the quantum future, and the forward-thinking executives who will transform industries.” (Tech Crunch, 2019).

https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/02/aws-launches-braket-its-quantum-computing-service/

In a research forum shared by Google and NASA, the first claim of quantum supremacy was made. The report was removed from the site after the story was broken by the financial times.
A quote from the news breaking article; “Google claims to have built the first quantum computer that can carry out calculations beyond the ability of today’s most powerful supercomputers, a landmark moment that has been hotly anticipated by researchers. Google, claimed that their processor was able to perform a calculation in three minutes and 20 seconds that would take today’s most advanced classical computer, known as Summit, approximately 10,000 years.”
Source: “financial times, google claims to have reached quantum supremacy”.
What is quantum supremacy?
Quantum supremacy means that calculations have been completed by quantum computers that would take classical computers an insurmountable amount of time. This is an important milestone and indicator as to the viability and readiness of quantum computing for commercial applications.
The research paper from Google noted “This dramatic speed-up relative to all known classical algorithms provides an experimental realisation of quantum supremacy on a computational task and heralds the advent of a much-anticipated computing paradigm”.
A link to the article is available by searching google for “Financial Times, Google claims to have reached quantum supremacy”.
What does this mean for enterprises?
Enterprises should be paying attention to this breakthrough. Quantum supremacy indicates that quantum computers are getting stronger. It will not be long before enterprise grade, powerful quantum computers are in the hands of the public and potential bad actors. IronCAP’s API is available to protect enterprise digital assets and infrastructure from the threat of quantum computers.
IBM has also announced an opening of a quantum computation centre in New York State. 14 quantum computers, including the latest version a 53-qubit quantum computer will be available to commercial clients starting in October. Director of Research, Dario Gil is quoted; “Our strategy, since we put the very first quantum computer on the cloud in 2016, was to move quantum computing beyond isolated lab experiments conducted by a handful of organizations, into the hands of tens of thousands of users”.
More information is available at IBM’s newsroom (September 18th, 2019).

An IronCAP meetup was hosting on July 18 about “The Impact of Quantum Computers on Blockchains and the Solutions”.  It was a huge success and we couldn’t get to all the questions.  A summary of the key Q and A is as followed:

1)      When should we begin to worry?

We should already be very worried.  Google’s key engineers have predicted that quantum-supremacy will be achieved within 2019.  Also a lot of data has a shelf life of several years.  Bad actors can “obtain and wait” until after the Q-Day to compromise the data.  Plus much of the infrastructure today such as blockchains cannot be easily converted to quantum-safe.  If a blockchain using non-quantum-safe cryptography is in operation, the task to reconstruct all the blocks quantum-safe standards is really tough.

2)      Why Code-based is our choice of cornerstone?

That’s easy… the “Test of time”.  Many experts believe code-based is the only one that has survived decades without a mathematical cracking theory.  In fact it is the accepted “standard of care” in EEC it is proven to be safe – but the digital signature is slow.  Hash-based is faster in digital signature but not very safe in encryption.  The other 3 potential candidates are relatively unproven for the lack of “test of time”.  IronCAP has combined the best from code-base encryption and hash-based signature, (enhanced by our patent-pending quantum-safe cryptography). It is both faster and safer.

3)      What about blockchain in the post-quantum world?

The structure of blockchain is not weakened by the power of quantum computers BUT the digital signature that blockchain relies on is.  Imagine if the authenticity of blockchain node can be compromised a hacker can  impersonate the node creating fake transactions.  The integrity of the whole chain will be corrupted within minutes.

4)      What about bio metric passwords?

Password and cryptography are 2 different categories in the world of cyber security.  Password is to prevent unauthorized access to the data on a device.  Data cryptography is to prevent the data from being understood regardless of whether that person has gained access to the data legitimately or not.  The latter is the bedrock of cyber security.

5)      IronCAP is interesting but how do we know it is real?

The product is developing at breakneck speed to respond to the desperate need. Our API will be published around Aug 1, which means full transparency.  To launch of our IronCAP API and IronCAP X (the world’s first quantum-safe email encryption system), we will hold more meetups August and September.

01 Communique has launched a new website ironcap.ca for desktops and mobile devices. You can obtain the latest information, white paper and video description about our IronCAP technology and its related products: IronCAP API and IronCAP X. They are one of the very first tools and software in the world that provide quantum-safe cyber security.

Customers interested to prep for the Post-Quantum Age can sign up as a beta user of IronCAP X on the website.

Get tomorrow’s cyber security, today!

Cyber security is a major issue for many organizations.  News of companies being hacked, private information exposed, and credit card information being stolen are heard on a daily basis.  As a result, companies lose millions of dollars and their reputation takes a hit.  Furthermore, because of the embarrassment and bad consequences that will follow, many companies do not report the hacks.

Hackers are becoming more and more sophisticated.  Quantum Computing is an upcoming technology that is generating immense interest.  According to the experts and literature, Quantum Computing will be able to break into any current encryption system within seconds.  This is what makes Quantum Computing unique and no current systems can protect organizations from Quantum Computing attacks. Once the Q-Day arrives, hackers or governments equipped with Quantum Computing technology can easily break into any encrypted system.

For example, China is taking Quantum Computing so seriously that they are investing billions of dollars into Quantum Computing research.  They are already looking into integrating Quantum Computing technology within their systems either in military or business-related activities.  Quantum Computing will certainly create a competitive advantage for those end users, organizations and governments who adopt it early.

01 Communique’s commitment to innovation and cyber security led to the development of IronCAP X, the world’s first quantum-safe end to end email and file encryption system.

With the increased sophistication of hacking tools and the fast approaching of quantum computing, IronCAP X is a necessity for everyone.  IronCAP X is ideal for any organization exchanging sensitive information across the internet and needs to protect its information residing on its servers from Quantum Computing attacks.   

On April 24 2019, 01 Communique performed a live demonstration of IronCAP X at its Annual General Meeting.  One participant asked if IronCAP X would have made a difference in safeguarding information during the 2016 election in the US.  Although the participant asked it as a tongue in cheek question, there is a serious side to his inquiries.

Quantum Computing has serious implications to cyber security.  Companies must get themselves prepared to safeguard their data not only today, but also for the future when the Q-Day arrives. 

The commercial launch of IronCAP X will be in the fall of 2019.  IronCAP X is free for individual users and will be available for $99.95 per user/year for businesses.

For more information and a live demonstration of IronCAP X please contact 01 Communique at info@ironcap.ca.

Customer feedback is always the #1 priority in the continued improvement of our I’m InTouch service. Recently many computers come with more than 1 graphics adaptor. In this newest v10.2 we have included support for computers equipped with 2 or more graphics adaptors.

Don’t leave for holidays without installing the latest version of I’m InTouch.