Chapter 1185 Storms Always Come Suddenly

Storms always come suddenly.

Under the joint action of relevant departments, several spy organizations lurking in the territory were uprooted, a total of 67 unsent intelligence documents were intercepted, and more than 200 pieces of leaked information were traced.

According to the list of persons involved in the case and the clues intercepted by deciphering spy documents, all criminals were arrested and brought to justice.

At the same time, the CIA headquarters, far away on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, was also passively involved in this thunderous operation that swept across the entire country, causing a commotion.

This arrest operation targeting intelligence personnel in other countries has exceeded the expectations of CIA intelligence experts and high-level decision makers, both in terms of timing and speed of action.

It's not that they haven't considered the possibility of leaking secrets, and it's not that they haven't prepared a crisis emergency plan, but everything seems to have lost its effect at this moment.

They didn't know when the big net had been wrapped around their necks. Even when the big net started to tighten, they didn't feel any abnormality at all.

They are not even sure now whether the intelligence they have received during this period of time was sent offline, or whether it was deliberately shown to them by the General Staff.

In any case, this fiasco was doomed from the very beginning.

The losses caused by this incident almost exceed the sum of the losses suffered by the CIA's overseas activities in the past ten years, and are even comparable to the Waterloo they encountered in the Bay of Pigs.

And this is not the most deadly.

The most deadly thing is that they don't even know now that they don't even know where such a big mess happened, and they just put them in the intelligence network that they spent more than ten years in.

Anyway, something happened anyway and someone has to be held accountable.

It is said that on the night of the incident, the president was furious in the White House, scolded the director of the CIA in a rage, and directly threw the investigation and evidence collection work to their old enemy, the FBI.

In the hands of the FBI, their life is not so easy.

In addition to the urgent withdrawal of those intelligence personnel who have not been caught and deployed in the Asia-Pacific region, a major purge is also unfolding within the CIA.

First, the director of the CIA took the blame and resigned, and then more than 20 high-level officials were suspended from their posts, and the FBI was responsible for keeping them in custody and conducting investigations.

However, no one would have thought that it was not because of any traitor at all.

The one who exposed the information and whereabouts of their intelligence personnel was not an insider at all, but a small box the size of a palm.

In front of it, there are no secrets at all.

Not to mention just a few spies...

...

When North America's intelligence system in the Asia-Pacific region was almost paralyzed, the real "behind the scenes" that caused this series of chain reactions—Academician Lu, still had no knowledge of it at this moment.

He also didn't know that his invention had become such an awesome thing.

It was Chang'an Avenue who wrote the letter to take the small box, and Mingmu said it was to be used for research, and at the same time help him solve the confidential patent matter. However, Lu Zhou probably would not have imagined that the little toy he made would be borrowed by the National Security Bureau, which is engaged in counter-espionage work, as soon as the front foot of the toy he made was delivered to Chang'an Street...

However, for him as a scholar, there is really no need to know that much.

Knowing more about some things is actually a burden, and not telling him is probably for the purpose of protection.

For at least fifty years, the story behind this operation will be sealed in the archives as a top-secret document. Except for the relevant personnel who issued the order and implemented the order, it is impossible for others to know the truth behind this thunderous operation.

After all, with the CIA's narrow-mindedness and vindictive nature, if you know who did it, I'm afraid that you will have the thought of flying the plane to Lu Zhou's house.

But then again, even without these things, some people may not necessarily want Lu Zhou to live...

In the field of security, quantum computers have already demonstrated their terrifying power.

Although not many people know that this shocking change that may change the strategic balance of the entire Asia-Pacific region is caused by it, but because the central government has been blowing the wind some time ago, major relevant research units are still actively or passively studying Encryption algorithms for restraining quantum computer technology.

Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

As the top research institution in the field of information security, a group of experts who can easily guess their identity just by looking at their hair volume are sitting at the conference table discussing.

Some time ago they received an order from Chang'an Street.

According to reliable sources, the Pentagon of the United States is studying the application of quantum computer technology to intelligence collection. Beijing hopes that they can develop an encryption algorithm to deal with cyber attacks launched by quantum computers with more than 1,000 qubits.

In fact, this requirement sounds strange, because the highest quantum computer technology can only achieve 100 qubits. No matter how you say it, it is a bit too worrying to consider the situation of more than 1,000 qubits.

But no matter how you say it, judging from the importance attached by the central government and the funds allocated, this task does not seem like a joke. Almost half of the big names in the field of cryptography were gathered in this meeting room of less than 50 square meters, and everyone signed a non-disclosure agreement before entering...

"Today is the fifth meeting," Academician Xue Jinhui continued, looking around at the people at the conference table, with a serious expression, "I hope everyone can brainstorm and put forward some constructive suggestions."

This academician Xue Jinhui has a strong background. He not only serves as the deputy director of the Institute of Information Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but also participated in the development of the Twin Field Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocol.

And this QKD protocol is also in the true sense, the first quantum encryption algorithm independently developed by Huaguo's scientific research team. It is precisely for this reason that he was selected as the academic leader of the entire project.

Discussions rang out in the meeting room.

The experts in the field of cryptography present here looked at each other, exchanging their headaches and helplessness with their eyes.

As Academician Xue said, this is already the fifth meeting, but apart from those old-fashioned things, they really don't know what else to exchange.

A cyber attack by a 1,000-qubit quantum computer...

Being targeted by this kind of "alien-level" power, it's better to just lie down. The technical gap among them is no longer a problem that can be solved by a few meetings.

In addition to giving up resistance, all they can think of is the inefficient means of communication such as "one-time secret", or returning to the era of "letters" to truly resist this cracking method.

"The efficiency of the LWE scheme is too low, the Soliloquy scheme is not safe enough, and the conditions of quantum communication are too harsh. Point-to-point communication is no problem, and the distance of more than 100 kilometers can be directly excluded, unless we can provide everyone with a Mozi satellite. The key... hiss, this leader really gave us a problem."

Shaking the cigarette held between his fingers, an old man with gray hair took a puff, the wrinkles on his face squeezed together.

Another middle-aged man wearing glasses sitting next to him showed a hint of displeasure on his face, as if he couldn't stand the smell of smoke, but he didn't say anything, just coughed lightly and said.

"It would be great if we could get Academician Lu into our project team. Cryptography is indeed the specialty of mathematicians."

As soon as this sentence fell, many people subconsciously turned their attention to Academician Wang Shicheng who was sitting at the corner of the table.

Being watched by so many people, Academician Wang Shicheng, who almost dozed off, opened his eyes in a daze and said.

"What are you looking at me for?"

An academician sitting next to him coughed and said.

"Isn't this expecting your Yanda Mathematics Center to come up with ideas?"

"Don't look for me," Wang Shicheng waved his hands, "This stuff is no longer in the category of mathematics, you should go find someone who studies physics."

Hearing that this great figure in the mathematics circle of Huaguo said so, many people had wry smiles on their faces. Especially Academician Xue, with a bitter smile and a little embarrassment.

A young professor sitting next to him who had been silent for a while suddenly spoke.

"Speaking of which, Academician Lu is mainly in charge of the work of IMCRC now, right? He seems to be researching something... boat particles?"

The professor sitting opposite nodded.

"Z particle, I have heard of it. I have read that paper several times. The characteristics of the Z particle are interesting. It exists for a while and then does not exist. When it does not exist, you can see it on other axes in the high-dimensional space. No, there is only a tail exposed when it exists... Hey, tell me, is it possible to use this Z particle for communication?"

"I don't quite understand... But what you said seems to make a lot of sense. Why don't we consult Academician Xia Lu?"

The topic has developed to this point, and it has completely digressed.

Coughing heavily, interrupting the lively conference table, Academician Xue looked at the scholars who had stopped talking, and said.

"Okay, don't just think about going to Academician Lu. The central government must trust our ability to entrust this task to us. As for Academician Lu, he has his own affairs to deal with, and we can't do everything. Depend on him to do it."

After a pause, he continued, "Also, what we are discussing is not the means of communication, but how to put a lock on our information, don't digress!"

Academician Xue broke the crooked topic with a few words.

However, what was embarrassing was that after the topic returned to the right track, the entire conference room fell into the original silence again, and no one spoke.

At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door, breaking the embarrassment in the conference room.

As if saved, Academician Xue said quickly.

"Please come in."

The door opened.

I saw his young assistant walking in hastily with a stack of documents in his hands.

Looking at the documents sent to him, Academician Xue was slightly stunned and asked subconsciously.

"This is?"

"The latest news from the central government..."

Seeing the questioning expression on Academician Xue's face, the young assistant swallowed, and said with a bit of embarrassment, "The quantum encryption algorithm project... has been cancelled."

The originally silent conference room.

It was lively for a moment...