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Random Power: a platform of random bit streamers based on quantum tunneling

Abstract:Abstract: Unpredictability is usually perceived with a sense of uneasiness and discomfort. However, when it comes to secure our data, information, posts, pictures and whatever flows to (or from) the internet about us, protection relies on unpredictability. The impossibility for an eavesdropper or a hacker to break the walls protecting our digital life depends on secret keys, protocols and ciphering algorithms, namely the art & science of cryptography. Keys, essential to lock&unlock the doors, must be randomly generated. And true randomness implies unpredictability. Random Power harnesses the quantum properties of semiconductors to generate a virtually endless stream of random bits feeding cyber-security systems. The principle is embodied in a Silicon device and benefits from micro-electronics advances; the source of randomness is endogenous and this is a genuine paradigm shift with respect to existing devices, providing simplification and robustness of the system; quantum properties of matter make unpredictability irreducibly unbreakable. The principle at the base of RaP! was embodied in a platform of devices, including a custom Application Specific Integrated Circuit. The quality of the randomness resulting from the devices was proven relying on the highest ranked procedures and independent tests. The architectures were designed and implemented according to the prescription by the U.S. National Institute of Standard and Technology and the first step towards certification completed. The Intellectual Property is protected by a patent already granted in Europe, U.S., China and Japan. A spin-off company was established for the exploitation of the project results and, beside the support by the European Commission, the start-up recently closed a seed investment round by a pool of international investors. The colloquium will cover the principle, the applications, the state of play and notably the history behind this genuine act of serendipity, from photon sensitive devices for fundamental research to the company establishment and development. About Speaker: Massimo Caccia, full professor of experimental physics at Università dell’Insubria in Como (Italy), is co-founder and C.E.O. of Random Power, a start-up company developing a platform of random bit streamers based on quantum tunnelling. Massimo is an experimental particle physicist. Analyst by mindset and sub-atomic particle detector technologist, he grew up scientifically at CERN in Geneva (Switzerland) where he was member of the DELPHI experiment at LEP, the Large Electron-positron collider, within the Vertex detector group. His main focus since the turn of the millennium is on applied physics projects based on instruments and methods developed by the particle physics community for medical applications, homeland security and lately encryption and privacy preservation. He coordinated four European Commission funded projects and joined two more as a partner.