Posted on 08/20/2016 8:45:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The world's second-largest economy aims to use the power of particle physics through photons to send the encryption keys necessary to decode information.
The launch of Micius - named after a 5th Century BC Chinese scientist - took place in the early hours of Tuesday in the southwestern Gobi Desert, according to Xinhua, China's state news service.
It will be used in experiments aimed at proving the viability of quantum technology to communicate over long distances.
Unlike traditional secure communication methods, it is impossible to intercept the data held in the bursts of subatomic particles because any attempts at eavesdropping will cause them to self-destruct, Xinhua said.
While scientists have been able to use the method to transmit messages over relatively short distances, technical hurdles have kept long range communication out of reach.
The satellite will try to send secure messages between Beijing and the Urumqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang in the country's far west.
For it to work, the satellite needs to be precisely oriented to its Earth-bound receiving stations, Xinhua said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
Banish hackers...BS
Banish hackers?? LMFAO!!! Seriously??
But the message still has to be sent in one place, and received in another, right? So if hackers read it in any of those two places, then they have it.
I’m thinking this is going to be a weapon that is used to prevent messages completing successfully.
Maybe a laser to blast hackers—probably something Bill and Hillary sold them in the 90s and now perfected. Its great to have traitors walk free, eh?
It has been many years since my education in Huygen’s Principle of Wavelets (in RF, comprised of that particle often called a photon) but it seems to me this ‘effect’ claimed as hackproof by virtue of pure directivity would be damned difficult to implement.
I confess I’m not up on all this but the mode/method of this ‘photon transport’ has to obey the laws of physics. If it’s just “photons” then they are subject to ionization, propagation effects and the same dispersive effects when they are propagated as in Huygen’s accounting.
If you design a highly encrypted proprietary hardware system that very few can gain hardware compatible with, and fewer still can connect that hardware to, then you pretty much block hacking from the outside.
It will be far easier for outside forces to compromise your personnel than to compromise your hardware, so that is what will happen.
If intercepting the message destroys it, how is that a good thing? Isn’t that a lot like fireproofing your house by burning it down?
All that technology, then the great leaders of the world go and put unsecured servers in the restrooms to circumvent all attempts at security.
Sounds something like what he Russian claim for their 6th gen radio mil comm for their S-500 systems.
They’re trying quantum?
Everything our military has tried has turned to crap...JTRS most notably.
And sounds like a much easier way to keep one from expressing one’s freedom of speech as well. Don’t want to offend the demi-god “leaders”.
She was well paid by someone to leave our national secrets sitting on the porch.
The answer was in the article....
“Any attempt to intercept will cause them to self destruct”
Communication must be both encrypted and disruption proof....
Sounds like it would be easy to disrupt...
Seems to me like this would be a great way to deny all messaging, in wartime.
Simply attempt to eavesdrop.
Bang. Message gone.
A colleague and I were talking about this on Thursday. Seems the Sky article left out some important information.
The way it was explained to me is that it appears the Chinese may have found a way to communicate via entangled particles at greater distances.
There can be no disruption in the communication because, with entangled particles, there is no (that we know of) “stream of particles” transiting between the two points to disrupt.
Quantum engineering is a fascinating field. I don’t understand it, but it would be quite the technological marvel, if they’ve actually done it.
Meanwhile, we’re focused on Hill v Trump,
Black Lies Matter, Big Brother, the Kardashians, et al.
This was the article I would have like to have posted, but Quartz is a no=go site on FReerepublic
You might see more of what you are discussing reported there.
Hey China! That’s a nice looking satellite you have there. It would be a real shame if some uncataloged object collided with it.
breaking news...12 year old on his xbox cracks code
film at eleven
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