Quantinuum rolls out quantum-powered encryption tool, company’s first product

BROOMFIELD — Quantinuum, a Broomfield company newly spun out of Honeywell International Inc. (Nasdaq: HON), has released its first quantum computing-enabled cybersecurity product called Quantum Origin.

Origin harnesses the power of a noisy, intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computer to develop cryptographic encryption keys that are far more secure than those created using traditional random number generators.

“It’s the first product that’s truly useful and performs in a way that can only be done by virtue of quantum computers,” Quantinuum president Tony Uttley told BizWest. 

“There’s no silver bullet that solves every cyber-security problem” using traditional computing power, and hacking groups have become “so sophisticated now…