{"id":178394,"date":"2023-12-15T17:51:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T23:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/u-s-and-china-race-to-shield-secrets-from-quantum-computers"},"modified":"2023-12-15T17:51:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T23:51:40","slug":"u-s-and-china-race-to-shield-secrets-from-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/u-s-and-china-race-to-shield-secrets-from-quantum-computers","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and China race to shield secrets from quantum computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-and-china-race-to-shield-secrets-from-quantum-computers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No one knows who might get there first. The United States and China are considered the leaders in the field; many experts believe America still holds an edge.<\/p>\n<p>As the race to master quantum computing continues, a scramble is on to protect critical data. Washington and its allies are working on new encryption standards known as post-quantum cryptography \u2013 essentially codes that are much harder to crack, even for a quantum computer. Beijing is trying to pioneer quantum communications networks, a technology theoretically impossible to hack, according to researchers. The scientist spearheading Beijing\u2019s efforts has become a minor celebrity in China.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum computing is radically different. Conventional computers process information as bits \u2013 either 1 or 0, and just one number at a time. Quantum computers process in quantum bits, or \u201cqubits,\u201d which can be 1, 0 or any number in between, all at the same time, which physicists say is an approximate way of describing a complex mathematical concept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one knows who might get there first. The United States and China are considered the leaders in the field; many experts believe America still holds an edge. As the race to master quantum computing continues, a scramble is on to protect critical data. Washington and its allies are working on new encryption standards known [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1625,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178394","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}