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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday October 03 2017, @08:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the yes-and-no dept.

Hackers, take notice: Ultrasecure quantum video chats are now possible across the globe.

In a demonstration of the world's first intercontinental quantum link, scientists held a long-distance videoconference on September 29 between Austria and China. To secure the communication, a Chinese satellite distributed a quantum key, a secret string of numbers used to encrypt the video transmission so that no one could eavesdrop on the conversation. In the call, chemist Chunli Bai, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, spoke with quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger, president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

"It's a huge achievement," says quantum physicist Thomas Jennewein of the University of Waterloo in Canada, who was not involved with the project. "It's a major step to show that this approach could be viable."

I can't wait to use this!


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @12:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @12:22PM (#576986)

    Gonna love to make it a crime, imagine all those quantum terrorists. The sole fact of searching quantum key will make you into an instantaneous Terrorist. Also the shrodinger cat will make into the most wanted criminals.