Creating secure passwords is one of the key simple security measures that users can take against having their accounts and security compromised. A new app from a British company aims to take password generation to a new level. The app uses a quantum computer to ensure that passwords generated are as random as possible, something that classical computers don’t do that well.
QRNG’s (Quantum Random Number Generator): using quantum computers for generating randomness
One of the first applications of quantum computers is to provide security benefits and one of the ways this is done is via ensuring that the underpinnings of security schemas use truly random numbers. Traditional computers can only typically generate pseudo random numbers which means that there could be patterns that emerge from generated random numbers. Quantum computers can use the process of superposition to enable programmers to generate random numbers. Already companies such as Quantum Dice are exploiting this quantum randomness, spun out of Oxford University’s world renowned quantum optics lab. Quantum Dice is developing the world’s first compact source-device independent quantum random number generator.
Spin Wallet
The spin wallet from British company Scarborough Quantum Computing Ltd is a quantum computing application that allows users to automatically generate quantum randomly generated passwords. Spin Wallet generates passwords using the ANU QRNG. This is a QRNG created by the Australian National University that generates random data by measuring quantum fluctuations via coherent lasers.
- The Spin Wallet can generate an unlimited number of quantum generated random passwords.
- Passwords are customisable in terms of length, special characters, uppercase/lowercase combinations.
- Create an unlimited number of passwords through custom accounts.
- Stored passwords are encrypted and stored offline.
- No monthly subscription fees.
Find out more from Scarborough Quantum Computing and Spin Wallet.