Cryptico is a privately-owned company specialized in cryptography

Cryptography

Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties...

. The company provides software for encryption

Encryption

In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming information using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge, usually referred to as a key. The result of the process is encrypted information...

 and message authentication

Message authentication code

In cryptography, a message authentication code is a short piece of information used to authenticate a message.A MAC algorithm, sometimes called a keyed hash function, accepts as input a secret key and an arbitrary-length message to be authenticated, and outputs a MAC...

. It licenses implementations of the Rabbit

Rabbit (cipher)

Rabbit is a high-speed stream cipher first presented in February 2003 at the 10th FSE workshop. In May 2005, it was submitted to the eSTREAM project of the ECRYPT network....

 stream cipher and the Badger message authentication code. Cryptico also offers services in the field of design, analysis and implementation of cryptographic systems.

The company is headquartered in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. It was founded in 2001 by Mette Vesterager and Martin Boesgaard who are some of the creators of the Rabbit

Rabbit (cipher)

Rabbit is a high-speed stream cipher first presented in February 2003 at the 10th FSE workshop. In May 2005, it was submitted to the eSTREAM project of the ECRYPT network....

cipher.