Breakthrough in encryption technology
It has taken 25 years for academics to raise the strength of an encryption algorithm from 56 bits to 400 bits (every extra bit doubles the time required to crash the key). Now a small British software development company, Hawthorne Davies Limited, has developed the HDX Encryption Algorithm with theoretically limitless key strength combined with very high speed.The algorithm, set at 3072-bits, is currently housed in the CRYPTETO 3072 Encryption System and now available for sale worldwide. Net encryption speed (less read/write time) is in excess of 60 Megabytes per second – that’s the whole of “War and Peace” in 0.05 seconds! What is even more remarkable is that a 49152-bit version – HDX49152, employing a session key that requires three A-4 pages just to write down, achieves exactly the same speed.
Dr Bill Hawthorne and Jason Davies have developed the technology, but are fully aware that such claims will generate scepticism, especially in academic quarters. However, to counter this, Hawthorne Davies has developed both speed and strength tests, that are freely available online, for anyone to check for themselves.
Dr Hawthorne is in no doubt about the significance of the breakthrough:
“The whole point of an “infinitely scalable” algorithm is to be futureproof. And it will save an awful lot of people an awful lot of time and money. It will put a break on the high cost of the development of quantum methods. And along with its unique key management system, a complete blanket of secrecy can be put over all data, whether stored or transmitted, for public and private organisations at a fraction of the cost of other systems.”
