Chapter 1195

After the May Day holiday, another big event happened in the communications industry.

A piece of news about a major breakthrough in quantum communication technology at the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study suddenly appeared on the Internet, and heated discussions arose for a while.

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

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

In view of the special status of this ivory tower in the academic circles of Huaguo and the hearts of Huaguo people, this news is still very reliable in the hearts of most people.

Reminiscent of the failure of SubCom on the No. 3 Asia-Pacific submarine cable project some time ago, many people are speculating that perhaps Huaguo intends to use the latest quantum communication technology to lay the No. 3 Asia-Pacific submarine cable.

Although such a statement made many professionals scoff, it didn't take long for these voices of doubt to be slapped in the face.

First, the "Trans-Pacific Submarine Optical 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 launched the bidding process and announced the bidding requirements for the trans-Pacific submarine cable project. It is clearly mentioned in the request that in order to ensure the security of Internet information, this submarine optical cable will adopt the latest quantum communication technology. All major submarine cable companies are welcome to actively bid and compete fairly.

Faced with such a request, whether it is NEC in Japan or SubCom in the United States, they all have dumbfounded expressions.

Trans-Pacific Quantum Fiber Cable?

Why don't you go to heaven?

...

On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, the White House.

Sitting behind the desk, the president pinched his sour brows, looked at FBI Director Mike Lue Brighton who walked to the desk, and said in a tired tone.

"What's the result of the investigation?"

Especially when the United States keeps accusing other countries of stealing its own secrets, such a thing suddenly broke out, which is even more interesting.

No matter when it is, espionage is extremely disgraceful. Even if the CIA's overseas operations are almost an open secret, it is still covered with a fig leaf after all.

Although the White House categorically denied it and said it had no knowledge of the matter, no matter how fierce the denial was in the face of those mountainous evidence, it seemed a little pale and powerless.

Such a serious matter has happened, and it is not something that can be exposed by a mere bureau chief after stepping down. It is necessary to find the cause of this result from the source.

If there is a traitor inside the CIA, then find him out.

For nearly a month, the entire CIA has been under investigation by the FBI, and this investigation report has finally come out now...

"To our surprise, although I would like to believe that the 25-year-olds of the CIA betrayed us, all the direct or indirect investigation evidence points to the innocence of those suspended officials..."

Facing the president's sharp eyes, Chief Brighton continued to speak expressionlessly.

"...this is not exonerating the CIA, in fact I'd rather send them all to jail. But all the evidence does point to the fact that this disastrous accident was probably not due to an insider."

President: "Then tell me why!"

"I'm afraid it's because of a more serious problem," Director Brighton continued with a solemn expression, "According to the analysis of our intelligence personnel, it is possible that we have an all-weather monitoring device that can detect from our intelligence in a way that we cannot detect. Get the intelligence they need from the Internet."

Hearing this absurd explanation, the president sitting behind the desk said in a sarcastic tone as if he had heard some funny joke.

"Is it mind reading or soul taking?"

"I'm not joking," Commissioner Brighton said seriously, "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 decision-making power on the spot, and can take all measures when necessary means, and keep the radio silent until the truth is known, and no one but themselves knows their identities...including you and me."

The president narrowed his eyes slightly, and said in a bad tone.

"You suspect that I have leaked the secret?"

"I haven't," said Commissioner Brighton flat-faced, "but it's necessary."

At this moment, footsteps came from outside the office.

Commissioner Brighton, who was about to say something, immediately stopped talking.

"Mr. President," knocked on the door, saw the Secretary of State come in from the outside, glanced at Director Brighton standing in front of the desk, and continued, "...I have something important to report to you, But... if your conversation with Mr. Brighton is not over yet, I can go outside and wait for a while."

"No need," the president looked at Director Brighton, and after a moment of silence in his expectant eyes, he said, "Just do what you said."

Finally heaved a sigh of relief, Director Brighton nodded.

"yes."

After speaking, he turned and left the presidential office, closed the door and walked away.

Seeing the direction where Director Brighton disappeared, the Secretary of State raised his eyebrows and asked the President curiously.

"Is it something about the ghosts in the CIA? Has anyone caught it?"

"No," the president said in a bad tone after finally recovering from a gloomy face, "Let's just talk about your business."

"He just came to visit me."

As soon as he heard this word, the president felt a headache, stretched out his hand and rubbed the center of his eyebrows and said.

"Another protest?"

"It's not this time..." The Secretary of State continued with a subtle expression on his face, "They didn't mention the spy thing at all this time, but made an irrelevant proposal."

"What proposal?"

"In order to cope with the deteriorating network information security situation, they proposed to set up a professional working group composed of experts from many countries to update the internationally accepted encryption algorithm."

"Update the encryption algorithm? What do you mean?" the president frowned and asked puzzledly, "Is there any problem with the current encryption algorithm?"

Secretary of State: "No problem, at least as far as I know there is no problem. Up to now, the RAS algorithm is still the most reliable encryption algorithm. I have consulted the cryptography experts at the Argonne National Laboratory. But the problem now is, They are hyping the RAS encryption algorithm as a major security risk. At the same time..."

After a pause, the Secretary of State continued.

"I learned that recently they are planning to use the latest optical quantum technology to build a new trans-Pacific submarine cable as a supplement to the original submarine cable. They offered to set an example and bear the full cost of this project, as long as we Here to cooperate with their work..."

"...Optic quantum submarine cable?"

Chewing the word repeatedly, a playful expression appeared on the president's face.

He has heard about this technology. It is said that it uses the principle of quantum mechanics and can keep it unconditionally confidential.

Strictly speaking, this is not a new thing. Some people have proposed this concept as early as the last century, but because the technology is too difficult, no substantial progress has been made.

Regardless of whether he has really mastered this technology, or whether this technology is really so magical, from a political point of view, it is impossible for him to agree.

Nine of the 13 root servers are in their hands. Although they usually cannot make a fuss about this matter, it at least shows that even though the Internet belongs to all mankind in name like Antarctica, its center is still in the United States.

Only they have the right to define the standards of the Internet.

Including what algorithm is used to encrypt each byte of data, and what form they are transmitted in.

To put it bluntly, they have no obligation to sacrifice their own interests to cooperate.

In the case of traditional submarine optical cables, they only need to send a nuclear submarine to cut a short section of the outer shell of the submarine optical cable with a robotic arm, and they can physically eavesdrop on all the data passing through the optical cable.

In fact, this is what they and their allies have been doing all the time. Once the pig teammate cut the optical cable and made a big news.

Are you not going to believe in the honest Statue of Liberty now?

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

It turned out to be this idea.

Thinking of this, a trace of the original expression appeared on the president's face.

All the clues are connected in series in his heart.

He suddenly thought of an old saying - "A drunk old man doesn't care about the wine on the table", which means that behind any behavior that looks suspicious, there are actually other plans.

It is too appropriate to use this sentence to describe it!

"Tell them that they are the ones threatening global network information security. If they really intend to set an example on network information security, let those hackers employed by the PLA stop stealing our state secrets and technology!"

“As for quantum undersea cables ... the commercial conduct of the White House is not about to intervene, but we are skeptical that this immature technology can take on such a critical and important mission. Unless they can prove that the technology is reliable enough, we will not Allow it to land in mainland North America."

Secretary of State: "You mean...we just refuse it?"

"Otherwise?" said the President casually. "I've seen through their tricks at a glance."