All posts by Simon McCorkindale

We are excited to launch Informaq, our quantum technology intelligence platform that aggregates, analyses, and summarises research, patents, news, and events from across the global quantum ecosystem. Keeping up with quantum technology is genuinely hard. Relevant developments are scattered across arXiv preprints, patent filings, conference proceedings, industry announcements, and government policy documents — published in […]

We are launching Kaysec, Spinsphere’s post-quantum cryptography division, to help New Zealand organisations navigate the transition to quantum-safe security before it becomes urgent. The cryptographic standards underpinning today’s internet — RSA, ECDSA, ECDH — will be broken by a sufficiently capable quantum computer running Shor’s algorithm. NIST finalised its first post-quantum cryptography standards in 2024 […]

Today we are launching Entronet, Spinsphere’s entropy-as-a-service platform providing cryptographically strong, hardware-sourced random numbers via REST API and SDK. Randomness underpins almost every security primitive in use today — from key generation to nonce selection to token minting. The problem is that most software entropy comes from OS-level PRNGs that, under the right conditions, can […]

We at Spinsphere are excited to announce that our spheres are now spinning! Our homepage has officially gone live. My journey began in 2002, during my university years, when professors introduced me to the theoretical and futuristic possibilities of quantum computing. At the time, it was a nascent field (and still is!), brimming with potential […]