{"id":138285,"date":"2022-04-18T16:26:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T21:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/a-new-quantum-encryption-breakthrough-could-lead-to-hacker-proof-communication"},"modified":"2022-04-18T16:26:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T21:26:28","slug":"a-new-quantum-encryption-breakthrough-could-lead-to-hacker-proof-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/a-new-quantum-encryption-breakthrough-could-lead-to-hacker-proof-communication","title":{"rendered":"A new quantum encryption breakthrough could lead to hacker-proof communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-quantum-encryption-breakthrough-could-lead-to-hacker-proof-communication2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from Beijing set a new quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) world record of 102.2 km (64 miles), a massive leap over the previous record of 18 km (11 miles), according <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/eurasiantimes.com\/china-claims-world-record-in-quantum-communications\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">to<\/a> <em><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/eurasiantimes.com\/china-claims-world-record-in-quantum-communications\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Eurasian Times<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The research could eventually lead to a massive quantum communications network that would be virtually hacker-proof due to the nature of the technology.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, who published their findings in a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41377-022-00769-w\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">paper in <em>Nature<\/em><\/a>, demonstrated transmission speeds of 0.54 bits per second, much slower than communications using classical computing devices. Still, this was fast enough for phone call and text message encryption over a distance of 30 km (19 miles).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Beijing set a new quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) world record of 102.2 km (64 miles), a massive leap over the previous record of 18 km (11 miles), according to The Eurasian Times. The research could eventually lead to a massive quantum communications network that would be virtually hacker-proof due to the nature [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1625,418,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-internet","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}