{"id":210931,"date":"2025-04-09T03:07:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/researchers-demonstrate-the-uks-first-long-distance-ultra-secure-communication-over-a-quantum-network"},"modified":"2025-04-09T03:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:07:38","slug":"researchers-demonstrate-the-uks-first-long-distance-ultra-secure-communication-over-a-quantum-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/researchers-demonstrate-the-uks-first-long-distance-ultra-secure-communication-over-a-quantum-network","title":{"rendered":"Researchers demonstrate the UK\u2019s first long-distance ultra-secure communication over a quantum network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-demonstrate-the-uks-first-long-distance-ultra-secure-communication-over-a-quantum-network.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have successfully demonstrated the UK\u2019s first long-distance ultra-secure transfer of data over a quantum communications network, including the UK\u2019s first long-distance quantum-secured video call.<\/p>\n<p>The team, from the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge, created the network, which uses standard fiber-optic infrastructure, but relies on a variety of quantum phenomena to enable ultra-secure data transfer.<\/p>\n<p>The network uses two types of quantum key distribution (QKD) schemes: \u201cunhackable\u201d encryption keys hidden inside particles of light; and distributed entanglement: a phenomenon that causes quantum particles to be intrinsically linked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have successfully demonstrated the UK\u2019s first long-distance ultra-secure transfer of data over a quantum communications network, including the UK\u2019s first long-distance quantum-secured video call. The team, from the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge, created the network, which uses standard fiber-optic infrastructure, but relies on a variety of quantum phenomena to enable ultra-secure data transfer. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625,1617,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption","category-quantum-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210931","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=210931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}