Given most of the hardware the rest of the world uses is made in China, "oh that? yeah we deciphered it with quantums" might make for a good cover if anyone found them using data that should have been securely encrypted without giving away any spy-in-the-hardware type systems they have slipped into people's chips, motherboards, memory, graphics cards etc &co. A side benefit being that it would make it look like they had way more quantums than anyone else which would probably America to work much harder on that, knowing that if the US makes any big breakthroughs that are practical to turn into products they'd probably have them manufactured in China.
China plans to swipe a bunch of data soon so quantum computers can decrypt it later
Tech consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton has warned that China will soon plan the theft of high value data, so it can decrypt it once quantum computers break classical encryption. The firm offers that scenario in a recent report, Chinese Threats In The Quantum Era, that asserts the emerging superpower aspires to surpass US-derived …
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Monday 29th November 2021 10:08 GMT amanfromMars 1
Take nothing for granted is prudent advice and a timely reminder to be prepared for shocks/surprises
so we can safely assume the Americans have this program well in hand. ..... cantankerous swineherd
A question to ponder and wonder at, for it may be considered too awesome to answer correctly and truthfully, is does China [and therefore the East] lead in that other emerged quantum domain/those other developing fields with applications exercising and advanced beta testing Deep See Ware fare ..... with IT forks into AIMindfulness .... or does the West assume and presume to be a primary leader worth following via mass multi media tales in that field too ‽ .
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Tuesday 30th November 2021 05:19 GMT amanfromMars 1
Re: quantum computers competitive edge at a spooky entangling distance
Shhh! amanfromMars's posts are a distribution mechanism for a one-time pad. That's why they are indecipherable. ..... Ken Hagan
Hmmm? Now if that were in any way true, Ken, and I certainly wouldn’t argue with you and dispute the matter, it would be a novel development with extremely valuable, as in priceless, invisible export/import earner potential and a quite perfect fit for the likes of a publicly-admitted-openly-struggling-with-failure-behind-the-scenes-of-a-leading-curve intelligence agency and/or MI6
cc .... C c/o SIS HQ Vauxhall Cross/PO Box 1300 London SE1 1BD
[If you want to try out the full fat relatively anonymous spooky contact route this is the official page you will need to read for all the intel on the hoops to jump through to keep yourself maybe secure ...... in these strange postmodern times and spaces where there are no secret places to hide anything from prying eyes and inquisitive minds.]
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Monday 29th November 2021 10:05 GMT Chris G
Mostly the dangers that Booz Allen are reporting on are a list of all of China's naughtyness over the last few months that have been reworked to sound as though they can relate to 'quantum'.
Quantum computers, fusion, flying cars and robo-butlers will all be possible around the same time (pick a repeating number i.e. decade, twentyfive years, blah blah.
I imagine that anyone who has come by some unencryptable data has stuck it in a drawer marked quantum.
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Monday 29th November 2021 13:28 GMT Pen-y-gors
Won't someone think of the planet?
This does not bode well - China using all those terawatts of coal-powered electricity to run their crypto-cracking servers. Why wasn't this mentioned at COP26? Surely our governments can use this as yet another justification for attempting to ban encryption?
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Monday 29th November 2021 16:37 GMT elsergiovolador
Random
The properly encrypted data is indistinguishable from completely random data. Just create a honey pot for Winnie the Pooh, like a file browser with files like gravity-engine-confidential-rc.zip.enc or F-35-bill-of-materials.zip.enc or big-pharma-lobbyist-payroll-2021.zip.enc and serve data straight from /dev/random
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Monday 29th November 2021 16:45 GMT hammarbtyp
I can see it now...Christmas 2031. The Chinese leadership crowd around the screen as the multi-billion dollar Quantum decrypter is turned on for the 1st time.
Technician ashen face turns to the glorious leader. "I don't understand it", they say, "we have tried a number of runs on our captured data but it only returns cat pictures...."
<Insert Schrodinger joke here....>
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Monday 29th November 2021 21:48 GMT Anonymous Coward
"Lets write a report that..."
CIOs buy to justify fancy new encryption kit
Quantum encryption snake oil vendors buy to spruik their stuff
NSA convenes a secret committee to get vital funding for this new critical threat
Chinese spies use to get funding for a boondoggle to collect vast amounts of data that they can't even read
Google puts a new fibre across to china to carry all the extra unreadable data
China's cloud providers go to the govt offering to store the unreadable data "securely", y'know, in case it were to get corrupted
Chinese academics make the govt fund their cool really cold stuff
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Tuesday 30th November 2021 10:54 GMT Beleagured Greybeard
Asimov's 3 Laws?
> Integrated warfare based on Internet of Things systems that uses intelligent weaponry and equipment and their corresponding methods in the land, sea, air, space, electromagnetic, cyber, and cognitive domains
So we're not going with the traditional 3 laws of robotics then?
Link to pertinant XKCD comic ==> https://xkcd.com/1613/
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Wednesday 1st December 2021 00:40 GMT Bitsminer
"intelligentized warfare"
Chinese AI systems, presumably trained on artificial turf using artificial bullets, won't be immune to the usual issues with the current crop of "learned machines": a 20% chance of raining on the wrong fellow's parade.
For example, automated translation systems can get things wrong, and nobody dies. In a battle, the misinformed or misconfigured AI can kill everybody. Not the kind of thing you can hand-wave away.
It's going to be a hot century.