Enigmedia creates an encrypted video conferencing system to guarantee privacy

The Guipuzcoan company Enigmedia, dedicated to the encrypted transmission of communications, has developed a system that improves the encryption of videoconferences to ensure the privacy of content.

The Basque startup Enigmedia, that develops technological solutions that allow communicating in real time in a safe and efficient way, has presented a patented technology that improves the encryption of digital communications for video conferencing, achieving a million times higher data transmission speed, when compared to current standard systems. The system is presented in a Set Top Box that connects to a computer and allows the user to communicate by videoconference with any city in the world..

Enigmedia has achieved, through nonlinear mathematics and chaos theory, generating random keys at both ends, with an estimated processor consumption in the 20% of the consumption of currently used ciphers. This decrease in information processing is very useful in servers to reduce the cost of encryption with multiple simultaneous connections.. The main advantages of this encryption technology are lower production cost and better CPU performance, no bandwidth consumption and greater scalability, eliminates the need for specific hardware; and a higher level of security, the level of encryption is only comparable to quantum cryptography systems.

The algorithm implemented through this technology has the ability to offer up to 3 times more robust security than other devices. Added to this is greater efficiency than 90%, if compared to the rest of the equipment on the market. “It is an ideal tool for any SME that requires a video conferencing service with greater privacy, whether it's a law firm, consultancies or companies in the machine tool sector”, Iker Hernández told the newspaper El Mundo, CEO of this firm and responsible for the project.

The versatile technology developed can also offer a valid application for the e-Health or telemedicine sector.. Those responsible hope to put it into practice so that patients can communicate remotely with their doctors from their home.. “It is an 'online' teleconsultation system that complies with the privacy requirements of the LOPD and can not only mean financial savings for the patient., but also for the hospital managers themselves because they will reduce the hours of care without reducing their quality.”, Hernandez added.