QSPARC Labs

Post-Quantum Cryptography R&D

Cryptography for systems that cannot afford guesswork.

NIST finalized post-quantum standards in 2024. The migration window is closing. The math protecting your data today will not survive what's coming.

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Standards

FIPS 203 / 204 / 205

Finalized by NIST, 2024

Threat model

Harvest now, decrypt later

Active today

Q-Day target

2029

Google's published estimate

01 / The threat landscape

The quantum threat is not theoretical. It is already operational.

If your organization handles financial data, health records, government contracts, or long-lived IP, your data is already a target.

2024

NIST finalized post-quantum standards

Federal agencies are mandated to migrate.

  • Enterprise infrastructure built today must conform to new standards
  • Non-compliant systems face a forced, costly overhaul on someone else's timeline

Now

Your data is being collected today, for decryption later

Nation-state actors are harvesting encrypted data now, storing it until quantum computers arrive.

  • Known as "harvest-now, decrypt-later"
  • Any long-lived sensitive data is already at risk

2029

Google's Q-Day target

Google targets a cryptographically relevant quantum computer by 2029.

  • Most organizations haven't started migrating
  • The window to act before Q-Day is closing

We build the cryptography.
You build on it.

QSPARC develops post-quantum cryptographic primitives and licenses them directly to the teams that build on them. Each one comes with its security proofs, threat model, and benchmarks.

  • 01No consulting retainers
  • 02No managed services
  • 03No lock-in
  • 04Founded by active researchers with 70+ peer-reviewed publications and NSF/NSA funding

Research collaborators

Research funded by NSF, NSA, the Louisiana Board of Regents, and the Tulane Innovation Institute.

Duke University
Washington University in St. Louis
Tulane University

02 / Core capabilities

Security you can verify, not just believe.

01

Hardened Against Hardware Leaks

Implementations resistant to timing, power, and cache attacks, because algorithmic security means nothing if the hardware gives you away.

02

Formally Verified Security Boundaries

Explicit threat models and formal correctness proofs so you know exactly what’s protected and what isn’t. No ambiguity, no assumptions.

03

Decisions Based on Data, Not Vendor Claims

Benchmarked performance under realistic constraints so your integration trade-offs are measured, reproducible, and defensible.

03 / Research

Selected publications

Research from the founders. Further results are under patent review and will be listed here once the filings clear.

04 / Founders

Active researchers, not a sales team.

Mahir Bilen Can - Co-Founder

Co-Founder

Mahir Bilen Can

Mathematician and professor with 70+ publications. Fulbright Scholar, NSF/NSA-funded researcher, Ph.D. advisor, and patent holder in quantum error-correcting codes.

Eli Naig - Co-Founder

Co-Founder

Eli Naig

Mathematician researching algebraic coding theory and post-quantum cryptography. NSF REU scholar building implementations in Rust, C, and Python.

05 / Advisory board

Advisory board

Zachary S. Brooks, PhD, EMBA - Advisor, Genomics & AI

Zachary S. Brooks, PhD, EMBA

Advisor, Genomics & AI

Founder and CEO of UGenome AI, building genomic and multi-omic software (DNA2Health and Seq4Life) that makes genomic medicine affordable and easy to use. Founder and President of World Transplant Athletes, generating research on the benefits of exercise after transplantation with academic partners. A #1 best-selling Amazon author of Discovering Your Human Algorithm, with a focus on bringing validated technologies such as quantum computing to genomic medicine.

Jerry Gepner - Advisor, Business & Commercialization

Jerry Gepner

Advisor, Business & Commercialization

Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame inductee, five-time Emmy winner, and inventor on a dozen patents in virtual imaging and audio. Co-founder/COO of Sportvision and former CTO and division CEO at The Vitec Group. Now teaches applied entrepreneurship at the University of South Carolina's McNair Institute.