Symmatrics™ is on a mission to reinvent encryption for the quantum era. Born from deep technical roots and driven by urgency, we’ve built a platform that enables mathematically unbreakable security — designed to scale, integrate, and future-proof the way modern businesses protect their data in motion and at rest.

We trace our roots to the original math. Claude Shannon’s foundational work on information theory established the unbreakable nature of the one-time pad — a symmetric encryption method still unmatched in provable security.
While others chase quantum resistance through computational complexity, we honor Shannon’s original principle: security rooted in randomness, not guesswork. By modernizing his insights for distributed systems and real-time communications, Symmatrics brings the elegance of mathematical certainty into today’s zero-trust world.
Symmatrics is built on a foundation of nearly 60 years in cybersecurity, defense, and secure systems engineering. Our founders introduced UHF RFID to major U.S. retailers with Matrics (acquired for $236M), applied security innovation to biomedical tech with Innurvation, and launched Matrics2 (now Symmatrics) on a foundation of patented symmetric encryption and true random number generation.
That same innovation now drives our product architecture, protocol development, and post-quantum security standards.


We’re a team of engineers, cryptographers, strategists, and builders — united by the belief that better security is not only possible, it’s necessary. If you're looking to work on meaningful challenges with real-world impact, Symmatrics offers a high-autonomy, high-integrity environment where ideas get built and results matter.
Whether you’re early in your career or a seasoned specialist, you’ll find no corporate fluff here — just lean teams solving big problems, together.
Symmatrics replaces trust assumptions with mathematical proof, protecting your organization from the risks of today and the threats of tomorrow.
What is Symmatrics?
Symmatrics has solved the problem that eluded cryptographers for 75 years: mathematically unbreakable, One-Time Pad encryption — now deployable at internet scale. In a post-quantum world, Symmatrics secures every data file, financial transaction, email, text, and voice communication transmitted over the internet — making it the foundational security layer for the global digital economy.
Symmatrics is building a new trust layer for the post-quantum internet. Instead of relying on long-lived public keys and certificates that quantum computers are expected to break, we secure data using single-use symmetric keys delivered at scale by our patented Key Distribution Center. The result: no reusable secret is left behind for an attacker — classical or quantum — to steal or crack later.
Where is Symmatrics based?
Symmatrics is head quartered in Vienna, Virginia, in the greater Washington, D.C. area.
Who is behind Symmatrics?
Symmatrics is built by a team with deep government-security and cryptography experience and a track record of prior technology exits.
Who is Symmatrics for?
Any organization handling sensitive, regulated, or mission-critical data. We see the fastest traction in financial services, cloud and AI infrastructure, and casino & gaming, with strong fit in healthcare, public sector, and telecom.
What does “Continuously Expiring Trust” mean?
It’s our name for the core design principle: trust that refreshes constantly instead of persisting. Long-lived keys, certificates, and credentials are the things attackers, AI, and future quantum computers rely on. By replacing them with keys that are used once and expire, we collapse the window an attacker has to work with — often to a single exchange.
What does Symmatrics actually do, in two sentences?
We replace the fragile, long-lived cryptographic trust underneath today’s internet with ephemeral, single-use keys that expire the moment they’re used — making intercepted data worth-less today and in the quantum era. Our patented One-Time-Pad Symmetric key approach has been operationally-proven by the US Intelligence and Defense Communities for 50+ years and, because it eliminates usernames and passwords, can reduce 80% of the $10 trillion cybercrime industry -- an $8 trillion cost-savings impact.
What problem does Symmatrics solve?
Our patented One-Time-Pad Symmetric key approach also eliminates usernames and passwords, which can reduce 80% of most cybercrime today -- a $10 trillion cybercrime industry -- giving our solution an $8 trillion cost-savings impact.
Nearly all encryption in use today rests on math problems that are hard for classical computers but solvable by a sufficiently powerful quantum computer. Symmatrics removes that dependency by using one-time symmetric keys, so intercepted data stays worthless today and in the quantum era.
Is Symmatrics available now?
Yes — with honest scoping. Our VPN (QPN) and Key Distribution Center are deployable today. Our SDK, AuthAM (password less access), and data-at-rest protection are on the roadmap. We’d rather tell you exactly what ships now than blur the line.