Honeywell unit offers first-ever quantum-created encryption key

A quantum computing firm is offering encryption keys that are uniquely random and can’t be predicted, which it claims is the world’s first commercial product. — Quantinuum/Handout via REUTERS

Quantinuum, the quantum computing unit recently spun off from Honeywell International Inc., is offering the world’s first commercial product created solely by a quantum computer, opening the door to what the company sees as a US$1tril (RM4.23tril) potential long-term market for quantum services.

The quantum computing-generated offering is for encryption keys that Quantinuum says are uniquely random and can’t be predicted, a milestone in using cutting-edge computing for a practical business problem, Tony Uttley, the company’s president, said in an interview.