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Chinese Quantum Satellite Sends First ‘Unhackable’ Data to Earth

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In what appears to be the world’s first quantum satellite transmission, China has successfully sent an “unbreakable” code over a long distance from an orbiting satellite to the Earth, achieving a milestone in the next generation encryption based on “quantum cryptography.”

In August last year, China launched the world’s first quantum communication satellite into the Earth’s orbit aboard a Long

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NIST Calls Development of Quantum-Proof Encryption Algorithms

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Quantum Computers – Boon or Bane?

Quantum computers can perform operations much more quickly and efficiently even with the use of less energy than conventional computers, but that’s bad news for encryption — a process which scrambles data according to a massively complex mathematical code.

In theory, quantum computers can break almost all the existing encryption algorithms used on the

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China Launches World’s 1st ‘Hack-Proof’ Quantum Communication Satellite

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China has taken one more step forward towards achieving success in Quantum communication technology.

China has launched the world’s first quantum communications satellite into orbit aboard a Long March-2D rocket earlier today in order to test the fund… Continue reading China Launches World’s 1st ‘Hack-Proof’ Quantum Communication Satellite→