{"id":31006,"date":"2016-10-13T13:17:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T20:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/bt-and-toshiba-showcase-uks-first-secure-quantum-communications"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:28:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:28:34","slug":"bt-and-toshiba-showcase-uks-first-secure-quantum-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/bt-and-toshiba-showcase-uks-first-secure-quantum-communications","title":{"rendered":"BT And Toshiba Showcase UK\u2019s First Secure Quantum Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bt-and-toshiba-showcase-uks-first-secure-quantum-communications.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BT and Toshiba have showcased the UK\u2019s first use of secure quantum communication at the telecoms company\u2019s research and development centre in Ipswich.<\/p>\n<p>The showcase demonstrates the use of quantum cryptography for communications over fibre optic cabling. By exploiting the quantum states of photons, the most visible elementary particles in the electromagnetic spectrum, the cryptographic technique can be used to communicate securely over normal fibre cables.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techweekeurope.co.uk\/e-innovation\/bt-and-toshiba-showcase-uks-first-secure-quantum-communications-199032\">http:\/\/www.techweekeurope.co.uk\/e-innovation\/bt-and-toshiba-...ons-199032<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BT and Toshiba have showcased the UK\u2019s first use of secure quantum communication at the telecoms company\u2019s research and development centre in Ipswich. The showcase demonstrates the use of quantum cryptography for communications over fibre optic cabling. By exploiting the quantum states of photons, the most visible elementary particles in the electromagnetic spectrum, the cryptographic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31006","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49744,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31006\/revisions\/49744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}