Jurand – National Quantum Number Generator

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Smart growth - PL - ERDF (2014PL16RFOP001), managing authority: Ministerstwo obsługujące ministra właściwego ds. rozwoju regionalnego. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Wrocław (NUTS PL514); Poland. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 661,917.6; EU co-financing EUR 517,379.69 (co-financing rate 78.16%), as stated by the source. Runs 2015-09-01 to 2022-06-30. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS); selected because its title uses a quantum word. Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): Reference number of the aid programme: SA.41471(2015/X) Purpose of public aid: Article 25 of EC Regulation No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain types of aid compatible with the internal market in the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty (OJ L. I'm sorry. EU L 187/1 of 26.06.2014). The subject of the project is industrial research and development work aimed at creating in domestic technology and commercialising a truly random quantum number generator, in which randomity is based on a fundamentally nondeterministic quantum-mechanical process. R & D works will lead to the creation of a hardware device that will provide, based on the laws of quantum mechanics, a source of real (indeterministically physical) random numbers, having two essential properties: 1) the performance necessary for practical cryptographic applications in stream communication (above 4 Mbit/s), and 2) a fully open technical specification instead of a “black box” architecture in which a programmable sequence determinism is possible in the form of deviation, conditional pattern or control (attack of Trojan horse in critical components of cryptographic systems using non-transparent external vendor systems). On the occasion of Snowden’s disclosure of the abuses of the NSA in 2014, it was revealed that this was the case in all systems of Intel and RSA – i.e. IT security tycoons – in order to provide the NSA with the ability to quickly break popular asymmetric ciphers, e.g. RSA, to which so-called initiation vectors IV, which determine the computational complexity of the cipher, are random sequences).

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The Jurand project, located in Wrocław, Poland, is a national quantum number generator initiative co-funded by the EU with a budget of EUR 661,917.6, running from September 1, 2015, to June 30, 2022, aimed at developing a random quantum number generator. Suggested technology pillar: computing. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.