NOTICE

Zipminator-PQC
Copyright 2023-2026 Daniel Mo Houshmand and QDaria AS

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this product except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License in the LICENSE file distributed
with this product or at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.

This product includes software developed by Daniel Mo Houshmand
(https://github.com/MoHoushmand) and QDaria AS (https://qdaria.com).

The original development repository is:
  https://github.com/MoHoushmand/zipminator-pqc  (created 2025-11-04)

The public distribution repository is:
  https://github.com/QDaria/zipminator           (created 2023-01-08)

Third-party cryptographic primitives:
- NIST FIPS 203 ML-KEM-768 (Kyber768) reference implementation
- Rust `pqcrypto-kyber` crate (dual-licensed MIT / Apache-2.0)
- Python SDK via PyO3 / maturin bindings

Quantum entropy sources:
- IBM Quantum hardware via Qiskit IBM Runtime
- Rigetti Computing quantum cloud
- qBraid quantum compute platform

Patent notice:
Methods and systems described in this software are covered by the
following patent applications filed at Patentstyret (Norwegian Patent
Office):

- Application 20260384 (priority 2026-03-24): Quantum-Certified
  Anonymization via QRNG-OTP-Destroy (15 claims)
- Application filed 2026-04-05 (Altinn ef95b9a26a3e): Unilateral CSI
  Entropy + PUEK (14 claims)
- Application filed 2026-04-05 (Altinn 870867694a06): Certified
  Heterogeneous Entropy via Algebraic Randomness Extraction (17 claims)

Use of this software under the Apache License, Version 2.0 grants the
rights stated in Section 3 of that License, including any patent
grants from the copyright holder. Nothing in this notice modifies the
License terms.