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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 09 2017, @02:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-an-entangled-web-they-weave dept.

In the race for safer ciphers, China just quantum-leap frogged the rest of the world.

[...] Now, China aims to escape that contest entirely with the creation of a communication network not secured by math, but guaranteed by the fundamental rules of nature. A team has demonstrated mastery over the secret sauce behind such a "quantum internet" with their satellite Micius, which recently smashed the distance record for creating a bizarre link between light particles known as entanglement.

"They are years ahead of everyone else in this technology," says Vadim Makarov, head of a quantum hacking lab at the University of Waterloo in Canada, who was not involved. "It's absolutely awesome."

Launched August 2016, the Micius satellite successfully entangled photons between two Chinese towns almost 750 miles apart. The experiment bested former fiber-optics setups by a factor of 10, a feat chief architect Jian-Wei Pan says others dismissed as "a crazy idea" when he first proposed it back in 2003. The accomplishment proves possible the ultimate aim of cryptography: an invincible code system theoretically capable of instantly connecting any two (or more) points on Earth.

No Man-In-The-Middle for you!


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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday August 09 2017, @03:40AM (3 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday August 09 2017, @03:40AM (#550928) Journal

    Note that you may only call using a diversity certified phone through the diversity management engine! :-)

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  • (Score: 2) by Sulla on Wednesday August 09 2017, @03:45AM (2 children)

    by Sulla (5173) on Wednesday August 09 2017, @03:45AM (#550931) Journal

    I can't tell whether or not this post is committing workplace violence, it has a "you" but did not first ask if I, the reader, is okay with that. I am going to go ahead and file a report anyways and let managemnt deal with it.

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    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @10:25AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @10:25AM (#551048)

      Well, the word "you" is connected with "may", which means the poster implies himself to be in a position where he can decide to say what you may or may not do, that is, in a position of power over you. In other words, he's clearly oppressing you. A clear case of workplace violence. ;-)

    • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday August 09 2017, @05:34PM

      by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 09 2017, @05:34PM (#551205) Homepage Journal

      I was recently at a talk on the use of personal pronouns in Japanese. The speaker told of a Japanese family who found the proper use of "you" so socially difficult that for their entire existence as a family they never used any form of that pronoun tp refer to each other. They wanted to avoid being overly familiar, insulting, formal, standoffish, whatever. So best just to avoid the pronoun altogether.