Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years

[heidi2521]

Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years | MIT Technology Review

A quantum internet capable of sending perfectly secure messages has been running at Los Alamos National Labs for the last two and a half years, say researchers

Holy ****!!!

All we need are quantum routers to make a quantum world wide web now.

Damn Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

 

[anirbandd]

^ i thought heisenberg uncertainity principle applied to particle[electron/photon etc], on the uncertainity of predicting both its position and velocity simultaneously..

how does it come into Internetworking??

 

[heidi2521]

^ i thought heisenberg uncertainity principle applied to particle[electron/photon etc], on the uncertainity of predicting both its position and velocity simultaneously..

how does it come into Internetworking??

For routing to work you need to know where the packet is, where it is to go and the contents of the packet to split/combine them. One of the implications of the principle when used in the context of the Copenhagen interpretation is that you cannot do the packet inspection required for this.

 

[MetalheadGautham]

Bah! There is enough and more security technology readily available... For those who know what they want and where to look

 

[harshilsharma63]

Now I'm just waiting for Normandy to be revealed.

Now I'm just waiting for Normandy to be revealed.

 

[Renny]

When I saw the title I thought it was an Indian govt. lab

 

[rijinpk1]

Me too

Me too

 

[mastercool8695]

^^ obviously, me too thought the same

 

[anirbandd]

For routing to work you need to know where the packet is, where it is to go and the contents of the packet to split/combine them. One of the implications of the principle when used in the context of the Copenhagen interpretation is that you cannot do the packet inspection required for this.

okay.. so you are treating the packets as particles!! nice

Now I'm just waiting for Normandy to be revealed.

meaning??

 

[Nerevarine]

India has better things to do than deal with these things .. like banning pron sites, passing stupid bills etc etc

meaning??

Mass Effect

 

[anirbandd]

India has better things to do than deal with these things .. like banning pron sites, passing stupid bills etc etc

and laundering the taxpayers' money.

 

[heidi2521]

okay.. so you are treating the packets as particles!! nice

Isn't that the entire basis of quantum networking(and cryptography)? They could develop a router which does not need to read or duplicate packets but if that exists it is also being kept a secret by governments/ google/ universities etc.

 

[whitestar_999]

first read the link.of course routing quantum packets is not possible so what researchers did was create a kind of quantum<->normal packet conversion in router so packets can be routed.however this also makes the converting router weakest link in the network but still much more secure than existing networks.

 

[heidi2521]

first read the link.of course routing quantum packets is not possible so what researchers did was create a kind of quantum<->normal packet conversion in router so packets can be routed.however this also makes the converting router weakest link in the network but still much more secure than existing networks.

I did read the link. When I said Quantum World Wide Web i meant something that required no conversion to normal packets and would stay in "quantum form" from end to end, not just router to router.

After all, the router is the place from which governments of countries like PRC & USA snoop.