After the small holiday of May 1st, another major event happened in the communications industry.

A news about the major breakthroughs in the quantum communication technology of the Jinling Institute of Advanced Studies suddenly appeared on the Internet, and the voice of the hot debate was raging.

Some time ago, the Institute of Information Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published the research progress of quantum computers. It has not been seen for two months. Even the computer has not seen it anywhere, and the news of quantum communication technology has emerged.

However, unlike the news of the quantum computer, this time it was the news released by the Jinling Institute of Advanced Studies.

Given the special status of this ivory tower in the academic circles of China and the hearts of the Chinese people, the credibility of this news in the hearts of most people is still very large.

Lenovo has been smashing the sub-company's discount on the No. 3 Asia-Pacific submarine cable project. Many people are speculating that perhaps China intends to use the latest quantum communication technology to lay the third Asia-Pacific submarine cable.

Although such a statement has made many professionals sneer, but it is not long before these doubtful voices are hit.

First, the Trans-Pacific Submarine Cable Management Committee was unveiled in Shanghai, followed by the announcement of the list of participating countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Then, the Trans-Pacific Submarine Cable Management Committee initiated the tendering process and announced the tendering requirements for the trans-Pacific submarine cable project. It is explicitly mentioned in the request that in order to ensure the security of Internet information, this submarine cable will adopt the latest quantum communication technology, and all the bottom cable companies are welcome to bid and compete fairly.

Faced with such a request, whether it is the nec of the Japanese country or the sub-company of the United States, it is a look of arrogance.

Trans-Pacific Quantum Cable?

Why don't you go to heaven?

......

On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, the White House is home to the government.

The president sitting behind the desk pinched some sour eyebrows and looked at the fbi director Mike Lu Brighton who walked to the table and said in a tired tone.

"How is the result of the investigation?"

More than two hundred spies and their development downline were wiped out by the Chinese security department.

This not only made their intelligence work completely passive, but also made them lose face in the international arena, and the entire diplomatic strategy was in awkward situation.

Especially in the United States, which constantly condemns other countries for stealing their own secrets, it is even more interesting to suddenly explode such a thing.

No matter when, espionage is extremely disgraceful, even if cia's overseas operations are almost open secrets, it is covered with a layer of fig leaf.

Although the White House denied it and said that it did not know anything about it, in the face of the ironclad proof of the mountain, no matter how fierce the denial, it seems a bit pale and powerless.

If such a serious incident has occurred, it is not the case that a director of the sub-district can be exposed. The reason for this result must be found at the source.

If there is a traitor inside cia, then give him out.

For nearly a month, the entire cia was accepting the investigation of fbi, and this investigation report is now out...

"Unexpectedly, although I am 10,000 to be willing to believe that cia's twenty-five people have betrayed us, all direct or indirect investigation evidence points to those indicted officials who are innocent..."

Facing the sharp eyes of the president, Director Brighton continued with a blank expression.

"...this is not a crime for cia. In fact, I would rather send them all to prison. But all the evidence does show that this heavy accident is not because of the ghost."

President: "Then you told me because of what!"

"I am afraid it is because of a more serious problem," Director Brighton said with a dignified expression. "According to the analysis of our intelligence personnel, China may have an all-weather monitoring device that can be used in a way we can't detect. Capture the intelligence they need on the intelligence network."

Hearing this ridiculous explanation, the president sitting behind his desk said as if he had heard a funny joke, in a satirical tone.

"Is it a mind-reading or a soul-hunting?"

“I am not joking,” Secretary Brighton said earnestly. “I suggest setting up a special investigation team to investigate this matter. In order to prevent the tragedy from happening again, we must give them a high degree of on-the-spot decision-making power. Means, and keep the radio silent before finding out the truth, no one but their own know their identity... including you and me."

The president’s eyes narrowed slightly and the tone was not good.

"Do you suspect that I and the Chinese people have revealed their secrets?"

"I don't have it," said Director Brighton, not changing his color. "But this is necessary."

Just then, footsteps came from outside the office.

The director of Brighton, who was also planning to say something, immediately stopped his speech.

"Mr. President," knocked on the door and saw the Secretary of State coming in from the outside. He looked at the director of Brighton standing at his desk and continued, "...I have an important thing to report to you. But... if your conversation with Mr. Brighton is not over, I can go outside and wait a little longer."

"No," the president looked at the director of Brighton, silent for a moment in his eyes, and said, "I’ll do it as you said."

Finally, he was relieved, and the director Brighton nodded.

"Yes."

When he finished, he turned and left the presidential office and closed the door and walked away.

Looking at the direction in which Brighton’s director disappeared, the Secretary of State’s eyebrows picked and asked, looking at the president’s curiosity.

"Is it a ghost in cia? Has anyone caught it?"

"No," and finally returned to the normal face and gloomy, the president said in a bad tone, "Directly say your business."

"The Chinese Embassy just came to visit me."

As soon as he heard the word Huaguo, the president was a headache, and he reached out and said with a brow.

"Are you protesting?"

"This time it is not..." The expression on the face of the Secretary of State was subtle, and continued. "They did not mention the spy at all this time, but proposed an irrelevant proposal."

"What proposal?"

"In response to the deteriorating security situation of network information, they proposed to set up a professional working group composed of multinational experts to update the internationally accepted encryption algorithms."

"Update the encryption algorithm? What do you mean," the president frowned, wondering. "Is there any problem with the encryption algorithm now?"

Secretary of State: "No problem, at least I learned that there is no problem. Until now, the ras algorithm is still the most reliable encryption algorithm. I have consulted the cryptographer at Argonne National Laboratory. But the problem now is that They are speculating that ras encryption algorithms have major security risks. At the same time..."

After a moment of pause, the Secretary of State continued.

“I understand that China is planning to use the latest photon technology to build a new trans-Pacific submarine cable as a supplement to the original submarine cable. They propose to be able to set an example and bear the full cost of the project. We need to work with them on their side..."

"...Light quantum submarine cable?"

Chewing on the word repeatedly, the president’s face showed a playful expression.

He has heard about this technology, and it is said that the principle of quantum mechanics is used to achieve unconditional confidentiality.

Strictly speaking, this is not a new thing. Some people have proposed this concept in the last century, but because of the technical difficulty, there has been no substantial progress.

No matter whether the Chinese people really master this technology or whether the technology is really amazing, from a political point of view, he can't promise the Chinese people to do so.

There are 9 13 root servers in their hands, although usually they can't make a fuss about this matter, but at least it shows that even though the Internet is nominally all human beings like Antarctica, its center is still in the United States.

Only they are qualified to define the standards of the Internet.

Including what algorithm each byte of data is encrypted, and in what form.

To put it bluntly, they have no obligation at all to sacrifice their own interests to cooperate with China to do so.

In the case of traditional submarine cables, they only need to send a nuclear submarine, and use a robotic arm to cut the outer shell of the submarine cable for a short period of time, so that it can physically eavesdrop on all the data passing through the cable.

In fact, this is what they and their allies have been doing. Even one time, the pig teammates cut the cable and made a big news.

Now that China wants to engage in the optical quantum submarine cable, is it not intended to believe in the honest goddess of freedom?

No wonder they smashed the concept of quantum computers some time ago...

It turned out to be playing this idea.

Thinking of this, the president’s face showed such a look.

All the clues are connected in series in his heart.

He suddenly thought that there is an old saying in China that "the old man who is drunk, not the wine on the table" means that behind any seemingly suspicious behavior, there are actually other plots.

It is really appropriate to use these words to describe the practices of those Chinese people!

"Tell them that it is themselves who threaten the security of global network information. If they really intend to set a good example on network information security issues, then let those hackers employed by pla stop stealing our national secrets and technology!"

"As for the quantum submarine cable... The White House is not intended to intervene in commercial activities, but we are skeptical about whether this immature technology can undertake such a critical and important task. Unless they can prove that the technology is reliable enough, we will not Allow it to land in North America."

Secretary of State: "What do you mean... We refused directly?"

“Otherwise?” the president said casually. “They’re the tricks that I saw through.”