This year as we took the stage at The Entropy Nexus in Madrid, part of our annual flagship event the Quside Showcase Day, we wanted to bring a simple message. One that captures both the urgency and the optimism of this moment for our industry: the opportunity to do more.
More to protect our future. More together. More with Quside.
Here are some of the core ideas from our keynote presentation.
Do More to Protect Our Future
We first shared some insights on market trends and what we are learning as we work with leading customers around the world. And we focused on two main trends:
The Need for More Keys
Across many sectors, we’re seeing an explosion in the number of cryptographic keys being generated. Why? Because of the convergence of many technologies, including post-quantum migration, hybrid cryptography, shorter-lived certificates, confidential computing, and, more recently, agentic systems.
For instance, in post-quantum hybrid systems, we are at least doubling the number of key negotiations we were doing before. That means we are at least doubling the number of keys and thereby the entropy we need. In addition, the growth of agentic systems and non-human identities is also leading to an explosion in the number of cryptographic keys and operations that are needed, in turn leading to an increase in entropy needs. In the case of quantum key distribution, the need to deliver higher effective key rates leads to an increase in modulation rates, also leading to a lot more entropy required.
Crypto agility, as a design decision, is also demanding the planning for more compute and entropy capacity than we think we need today, so systems can be easily upgraded whilst in the field. This is particularly relevant in industries where product lifecycles are very long (e.g., 10+ years) and field replacements are terribly expensive. Key examples are the automotive and defense industries.
Runtime Entropy Monitoring: The Next Frontier in Zero Trust
The second big point we made was continuous verification. We’ve all embraced Zero Trust, and many items on billions of systems are constantly monitored. However, one of the foundations of security, i.e., entropy, this remains largely unmonitored, at least not properly. Entropy is a hardware concept, and we are limiting verification to statistical tests only, even when we know we should not rely on those to assess cryptographic random number generators.
At Quside, we’re addressing this gap, through hardware-based entropy assessment in runtime, a capability we call Locally Verified Entropy. It’s about moving from blind-trust to measured-trust, ensuring that every key we generate is rooted in verified, physical randomness, monitored continuously, and traceable back to entropy sources. In our case, quantum sources.
Do More Together
From there, we turned to collaboration; how we’re building this new trust infrastructure together with our customers and partners. We started with the unique requirements of space and defense, and then we moved to showcase integrated enterprise solutions with partners and use cases.
Engineering for the Most Demanding Environments
We began with space and defense, two sectors that strongly influence the frontier of security and reliability. Here, the challenge isn’t only cryptographic strength but also environmental endurance: radiation, vacuum, temperature extremes.
Our team has spent years engineering chips and modules designed to operate in these conditions. Today, we are building for demanding space conditions, both LEO and GEO orbits. We are also building for defense environments. This has forced us to adapt our semiconductor investments as well as our system engineering design and processes.
The momentum is extraordinary: Spain committed an additional €10,000 million of defense budget this year, Europe is planning €800 billion in the Rearm Europe initiative, and in space, Europe is bullish on the €6.5 billion IRIS2 constellation. Quside is ready for these markets, and we are proud of where we are today.
Expanding Our Partner Ecosystem
We also shared the work we’re doing across our partner ecosystem. We talked about the integration of Quside’s Garnet family (PCIE) with Thales’ Luna HSM via the PKCS#11 interface. We talked about our joint solution with KeyFactor, combining Quside’s SP800-90B-certified entropy with Key Factor’s FIPS 140-3 key infrastructure.
We also shared more about the joint efforts with Palo Alto Networks on the QRNG OpenAPI. Palo Alto shared earlier in 2025 they would enable this interface in their products. At Quside, we support the interface both with on-premise appliances as well as online natively from within the Equinix Fabric and also via AWS DirectConnect. This is part of Quside’s Entropy Core product line.
Finally, we also shared some use cases, including one we are particularly excited about in smart cities. Here we combined infrastructure post-quantum certificates with field-deployed trust infrastructure for data in transit protection (e.g. TLS upgrades).
This is what doing more together looks like: interoperability, shared standards, and collaboration that turns technology into infrastructure.
Do more with Quside
The final part of our talk focused on sharing more about our products, and our roadmap. As we have deployed with customers, we have been asked about the possibility to do more. We shared more about what this will all mean for our main product lines as we enhance the infrastructure of digital trust.
We shared a major expansion of our portfolio:
On our Garnet Series (PCIe), we unveiled that we will now support TLS acceleration, bringing verified entropy directly into performance-sensitive workloads. The Garnet X5, available in 2026, will provide over 3X acceleration over efficient software implementations and support over 40,000 operations per second.
We also announced the launch of our Onyx Series (system-on-module), which will combine our Ruby S1 chip for 50 Mbit/s entropy generation with hardware root-of-trust. We have partnered with Lattice Semiconductors to put this module together. We are very excited about the overall features. The Onyx X5 will also be available in 2026, and samples will be available late 2025 for selected customers.
These products represent a major leap forward, embedding quantum entropy, post-quantum readiness, and verifiable trust into the core of modern digital infrastructure.
Finally, we shared one more thing.
For years, the cybersecurity industry has relied on fear as its core narrative — fear of attacks, hacks, breaches, and uncertainty. But we believe trust doesn’t start with fear. Trust starts with transparency, with verification, with integrity. It starts with Love™.
But not necessarily the sentimental kind.
Love™ (Locally Verified Entropy) engrains Quside’s philosophy and technology in one: a commitment to grounding security in verifiable and reliable foundations. It’s a statement that captures both our philosophy and our technology. We’re not just generating randomness: we’re creating a measurable, auditable foundation of trust that powers everything built on top of it.
As you’ll hear us say, “Digital trust starts with Love™”
Thanks to everyone who joined us in Madrid, and those who read this afterward.
With Love™, Quside!
