China Releases World's 1st Hack Proof Quantum Communication Satellite.

[frogboy]

China has launched the world's first quantum communications satellite into orbit aboard a Long March-2D rocket earlier today in order to test the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics at space.

'Hack-Proof' Communications System

The satellite, dubbed Quantum Science Satellite, is designed to develop a 'Hack-Proof' communications system in this age of global electronic surveillance and cyber attacks by transmitting uncrackable encryption keys from space to the ground.


The 600-plus-kilogram Quantum Science Satellite, better known as Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) satellite, took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gobi Desert at 1:40 AM local time on a 2-year mission on Tuesday.

The QUESS satellite will help China perform unprecedented levels of experiments in quantum communication by sending entangled photons from the satellite to relay stations in China and Europe, which is separated by about 1,200 kilometers (746 miles).

The pioneering experiment is to test if the spooky property of quantum entanglement can work at long distances as well.

Full Article. China Launches World's 1st 'Hack-Proof' Quantum Communication Satellite

 

[ElectricSheep]

Chinese are so secretive, it's impossible to find their live launches anywhere. Every other space agency broadcasts their launches, except China.

 

[Logethica]

Great share @frogboy ..thanks
Really Interesting.

 

[David98]

I bet someone will crack and hack it someday. Nothing is 100% proof, there's always a vulnerability. It will take the right mind to think outside the box. But what the Chinese are claiming is pretty bald. Are they asking to be cracked so they can fix those vulnerabilities. Who knows but very interesting article thanks for sharing.

 

[frogboy]

Gi

I bet someone will crack and hack it someday. Nothing is 100% proof, there's always a vulnerability. It will take the right mind to think outside the box. But what the Chinese are claiming is pretty bald. Are they asking to be cracked so they can fix those vulnerabilities. Who knows but very interesting article thanks for sharing.

Give it time and someone will, they even managed to hack the NSA today so nothing is totally safe.

 

[David98]

Re-innovate a new coding system using something other then bytes. That will take forever but if someone does manage to create this way of coding, then it will be uncrackable for centuries to come. But it's unlikely something so grand like that will ever happen. But you have to start from scratch (the very beginning of coding) to even come up with something like that.