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Theme fund: NGI0 Commons Fund
Start: 2025-08
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Qryptr

Air-gapped open hardware encryption device

As a a smartphone user you might be worried about spyware, advanced actors, backdoors, zero-days or side-channel attacks? These routinely bypass end-to-end encryption through keyloggers, screen capture and compromised keys. Smartphones are part of complex ecosystems with dozens of hardware and software components and remain vulnerable despite vendor and political efforts. Qryptr is a simple, offline, airgapped device to counter such threats. Plain text messages entered via its keyboard are ECC encrypted and displayed as QR codes. These QR codes can be photographed and shared using your smartphone. This method offers additional endpoint security as plaintext and cryptographic keys are kept physically separate from your smartphone.

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This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).