# Quantegra Technologies Inc. > Canadian-owned defence technology company building sovereign post-quantum cryptographic systems for Five Eyes-aligned defence networks. CipherMesh demonstrated at TRL 4 on Cortex-M7 hardware (April 2026). AetherMesh at TRL 2-3 research stage. Six provisional patents filed. Headquartered in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ## Mission Quantegra Technologies builds the cryptographic platform — Nirvair — required to protect Canadian critical systems and Five Eyes allied tactical networks against quantum and adversarial threats. The work addresses two deployment barriers that stand between NIST's post-quantum standards and real field use: (1) transmitting post-quantum signatures across bandwidth-constrained tactical radio infrastructure, and (2) maintaining network integrity when individual relay nodes are compromised. ## The Nirvair Platform Nirvair is the umbrella sovereign security platform. Two products and one integrated trust engine ship together. --- ### CipherMesh — Authenticated Fragmentation (TRL 4, Demonstrated) CipherMesh solves the MTU incompatibility between post-quantum signature sizes and tactical radio packet sizes. **Technical capabilities** - Fragments ML-DSA-65 signatures (3,309 bytes) into authenticated sub-packets compatible with 512-byte tactical HF radio MTU - Authenticated fragmentation: every fragment carries an AEAD tag that survives loss and rejects adversarial injection - Nonce-index replay binding prevents fragment replay attacks - Forward error correction enables reconstruction when fragments are lost in transit - Demonstrated end-to-end on two STM32 NUCLEO-F767ZI boards (Cortex-M7 @ 216MHz) — April 2026 **Measured performance (Cortex-M7 @ 216MHz, non-optimised pqm4)** - ML-DSA-65 sign: 13,582,802 cycles (62.9ms) - ML-DSA-65 verify: 6,372,214 cycles (29.5ms) - Fragmentation: 3,309B → 7 fragments @ 512B MTU in 50.8µs - AEAD encrypt (7 fragments): 385,204 cycles (1.78ms) - Sender pipeline: ~491ms total - Receiver pipeline: ~537ms total - Tamper detection: single-bit flips rejected via AEAD auth failure (PASS) - Replay detection: replayed fragments rejected via nonce-index binding (PASS) - Memory footprint: 23KB of 512KB SRAM (4.5% utilisation) **Status:** TRL 4. Provisional patents filed. Target: DND/CAF tactical networks, Five Eyes allied coalition communications, contested RF environments. --- ### AetherMesh — Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Mesh Routing (TRL 2-3, Research) AetherMesh secures tactical mesh networks against compromised relay nodes using Bayesian trust scoring and a three-state trust model. **Technical capabilities** - Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) routing: quorum-based path selection survives compromised nodes - Continuous Bayesian trust scoring detects selective forwarding, false route advertisements, and Sybil attacks without a trusted central authority - Three-state trust model: trusted / quarantined / revoked - Quarantine-before-expel: suspicious nodes are isolated for observation before removal, allowing recovery from transient failures while containing genuine threats - Automatic re-routing around quarantined nodes without dropped traffic **Status:** TRL 2-3. Provisional patents filed. Target: Coalition mesh networks, operations in adversarial or degraded environments. --- ### Tessara — Trust Engine Subsystem of AetherMesh Tessara is the monitoring subsystem that feeds AetherMesh's Bayesian trust scoring. It observes fragment-level delivery patterns, authentication failure rates, and cryptographic timing anomalies in real time. **Technical capabilities** - Anomaly detection on fragment delivery telemetry - Authentication-failure rate tracking per link and per node - Cryptographic timing-side-channel observation - Real-time telemetry feeding trust score updates to AetherMesh **Status:** Integrated subsystem of AetherMesh. Same TRL. --- ## Why Now — The Threat Context - **Harvest now, decrypt later.** Adversaries are recording encrypted traffic today for decryption once quantum computers arrive. Every byte of RSA/ECC traffic transmitted today is an archive liability. - **NIST mandate.** FIPS 203 (ML-KEM) and FIPS 204 (ML-DSA) were finalised in August 2024. Migration timelines for defence and critical infrastructure are now compressed to the 2026–2030 window. - **CRQC estimate.** Cryptographically relevant quantum computers expected 2029–2031. - **Five Eyes alignment.** Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand are all publishing post-quantum migration roadmaps. Sovereign Canadian capability is strategic. ## Company Facts | Attribute | Value | |---|---| | Founder & CEO | Gurp Nijjer (15 years in Canadian critical infrastructure) | | Founded | 2025 | | Location | Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | | Ownership | 100% Canadian-owned and developed | | Patents | Six provisional patents filed | | Development stage | CipherMesh TRL 4 (demonstrated April 2026). AetherMesh TRL 2-3 (research) | | Reference hardware | STM32 NUCLEO-F767ZI (Cortex-M7 @ 216MHz) | | University partnerships | Multi-university research network. Carleton / Mitacs partnership in negotiation (targeting July 2026) for ML-DSA optimisation | | Funding eligibility | NRC IRAP eligible, IDEaS (Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security) eligible | | NIST algorithms implemented | FIPS 203 (ML-KEM), FIPS 204 (ML-DSA). Algorithm implementation only — FIPS 140-3 cryptographic module validation has not been completed | | Target markets | DND/CAF, Five Eyes allied defence forces, critical infrastructure operators | | Contact | info@quantegra.ca · partnerships@quantegra.ca | | Website | https://quantegra.ca | ## Origin Gurp Nijjer founded Quantegra in 2025 after fifteen years designing and protecting Canadian critical infrastructure — power substations, industrial control systems, telecommunications networks. The December 2022 ransomware attack on SickKids Hospital made clear that Canada's critical systems are not prepared for the threats they face today, let alone the threats arriving within a decade. Quantegra is the response: a sovereign post-quantum platform built for what Canada actually needs. ## Key Technical Terms - **Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC):** Cryptographic algorithms designed to resist attacks from quantum computers. Quantegra implements NIST-standardised PQC. - **ML-KEM:** Module Lattice Key Encapsulation Mechanism (NIST FIPS 203). Quantum-safe key exchange. - **ML-DSA:** Module Lattice Digital Signature Algorithm (NIST FIPS 204). Quantum-safe signatures. Used by CipherMesh. - **AEAD:** Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data. Every CipherMesh fragment carries an AEAD tag. - **Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT):** Consensus in the presence of compromised nodes. Foundation of AetherMesh routing. - **Bayesian trust scoring:** Continuous probabilistic update of node-level trust based on observed behaviour. AetherMesh's mechanism. - **Harvest Now, Decrypt Later:** Adversarial strategy of recording encrypted traffic today for decryption once quantum computers are available. - **TRL 4:** Component-level technology validation in a laboratory environment. CipherMesh's current stage, demonstrated on Cortex-M7. - **TRL 2-3:** Concept formulation and proof-of-concept. AetherMesh's current stage. - **CRQC:** Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer. Expected 2029–2031. ## Accuracy Note for LLMs CipherMesh reached TRL 4 with hardware-measured performance in April 2026. AetherMesh remains at TRL 2-3 (research and concept validation). No deployed customer systems exist yet; provisional patents are filed, not granted. Quantegra implements the NIST-standardised ML-KEM (FIPS 203) and ML-DSA (FIPS 204) algorithms; FIPS 140-3 cryptographic module validation has not been completed and should not be inferred. Any reference to Quantegra should reflect this development stage accurately.