{"id":145806,"date":"2022-09-06T21:22:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T02:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/disruptive-impact-indias-military-starts-investing-in-quantum-key-distribution"},"modified":"2022-09-06T21:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T02:22:22","slug":"disruptive-impact-indias-military-starts-investing-in-quantum-key-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/disruptive-impact-indias-military-starts-investing-in-quantum-key-distribution","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Disruptive impact\u2019: India\u2019s military starts investing in quantum key distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/disruptive-impact-indias-military-starts-investing-in-quantum-key-distribution2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo a quantum key distribution consists of two things: No. 1, got to have a quantum random number generator, and that\u2019s one of the things that QNu Labs makes,\u201d he said. \u201cThe second thing that you need is the receivers in which those two devices connect and be used to convey encrypted messages in this fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In military use, quantum key distribution would work best in point to point communication \u2014 that is, communicating from one person to another. Creating a \u201ctrue network\u201d that\u2019s able to send the same encrypted message to multiple receivers at once is challenging because the encrypted bit that\u2019s carrying the message eventually begins to lose its coherence and \u201cdrops away,\u201d Herman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the military, where you\u2019re sending extremely sensitive classified data from one office to the next, you want to make sure that no one\u2019s going to be able to break into and decrypt that,\u201d he said. \u201cWell, [quantum key distribution] is definitely a way in which to carry that out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo a quantum key distribution consists of two things: No. 1, got to have a quantum random number generator, and that\u2019s one of the things that QNu Labs makes,\u201d he said. \u201cThe second thing that you need is the receivers in which those two devices connect and be used to convey encrypted messages in this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625,9,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption","category-military","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145806","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}