Chapter 1194: The drunk is not in the wine

After the May Day holiday, another big thing happened in the communications industry.
A piece of news about the Jinling Institute of Advanced Research's major breakthrough in quantum communication technology suddenly appeared on the Internet.
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. Even that computer has not been seen anywhere, and news about quantum communication technology has surfaced again.
However, unlike the news of the quantum computer, this time it was the news released by the Jinling Institute of Advanced Studies.
In view of the special status of this ivory tower in the academic circles of the Chinese nation and the Chinese people, the credibility of this news in the hearts of most people is still very great.
Reminiscent of the company ’s collapse on the Asia-Pacific submarine cable project No. 3 some time ago, many people are speculating that perhaps China is planning to use the latest quantum communication technology to lay this Asia-Pacific submarine cable No. 3.
Although such a statement made many professionals sneer, but it didn't take long for these voices to be questioned.
First, the "Trans-Pacific Submarine Cable Management Committee" was unveiled in Shanghai, and then the list of participating countries in the Asia-Pacific region was announced.
Then, the Trans-Pacific Submarine Cable Management Committee initiated a tender process, announcing the tender requirements for the Trans-Pacific Submarine Cable Project. The requirements clearly mentioned that in order to ensure the security of Internet information, this submarine optical cable will use the latest quantum communication technology. All submarine cable companies are welcome to bid and compete fairly.
Faced with such a request, both the Japanese nec and the US sub company have an aggressive expression.
Trans-Pacific Quantum Cable
Why are you so special?
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Across the Pacific Ocean, the White House.
The president sitting behind his desk squeezed a bit of sour brows, looked at the fbi director Maikro Brighton who came to the table, and said in a weary tone.
"How's 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 caused their intelligence work to be completely passive, but also caused them to lose all face in the world, and the entire diplomatic strategy fell into an awkward situation.
Especially under the United States' continual condemnation of other countries for stealing their own national secrets, such a sudden outbreak of such things is even more interesting.
No matter when it is, espionage is extremely disgraceful. Even if cia's overseas operations are almost an open secret, it is covered with a cover.
Although the White House denied it vehemently and said it had no knowledge of the matter, in the face of the iron-clad evidence, no matter how fierce the denial, it seemed a little pale.
Such a serious incident happened, and it was not just a director who stepped down to reveal it. He had to find the cause of the result from the source.
If there is a traitor inside cia, get him out.
For almost a month, the entire cia was under investigation by the fbi, and this investigation report is now finally out ...
"Unexpectedly, although I was willing to believe that the two or five people who sold us had betrayed us, all the direct or indirect investigation evidence pointed to the innocent officials who were suspended ..."
Facing the president's sharp eyes, Director Brighton continued expressionlessly.
"... This is not a scapegoat for cia. In fact, I would rather send them all to jail. But all the evidence does show that this serious accident is probably not caused by the inner ghost."
President "Then why do you tell me!"
"I'm afraid it's because of more serious problems," Director Brighton continued with a dignified expression. "According to the analysis of our intelligence personnel, China may have a kind of all-weather monitoring device that can detect from us in a way we cannot detect. Their intelligence network. "
Hearing this ridiculous explanation, the president sitting behind his desk seemed to have heard some funny joke, speaking in an ironic tone.
"Is mind reading or demention?"
"I'm not kidding," Commissioner Brighton said seriously. "I recommend setting up a special investigation team to investigate this matter. To prevent the tragedy from happening again, we must give them a high degree of on-site decision-making power and can use everything at any time when necessary. Means, and keep the radio silent until the truth is found, no one knows who they are except themselves ... including you and me. "
The president's eyes narrowed slightly and he said in a bad tone.
"Do you suspect that the Chinese and I have leaked the secret?"
"I didn't," Director Brighton said, unchanged. "But it's necessary."
Just then, footsteps came from outside the office.
Director Brighton, who had planned to say something, stopped immediately.
"Mr. President," knocked on the door, and saw the Secretary of State come in from outside, glanced at Director 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 yet, I can go outside and wait for a while. "
"No need," the president looked at Director Brighton, silent for a moment in his expectant eyes, and said, "Just do what you say."
Finally relieved, Director Brighton nodded.
"Yes."
After speaking, he turned away from the president's office, closed the door and left.
Seeing the direction in which Director Brighton disappeared, the Secretary of State raised an eyebrow and asked the president curiously.
"Is it a ghost in cia? Did anyone catch it?"
"No," he finally managed to get back to normal, his face gloomy again, and the president said in a bad voice, "let's talk about your business directly."
"The Chinese Embassy just visited me."
As soon as he heard the word Hua Guo, the president had a headache and said, rubbing his eyebrows.
"Protest again?"
"Not this time ..." The expression on the Secretary's face was a bit subtle and continued, "They did not mention spying at all this time, but made an irrelevant proposal."
"What offer?"
"In order to deal with the deteriorating network information security situation, they propose to set up a professional working group composed of experts from multiple countries to update the internationally used encryption algorithms."
"Update the encryption algorithm? What do you mean," the president frowned, asking, "Is there anything wrong with the current encryption algorithm?"
Secretary of State "No problem, at least as far as I know there is no problem. Until now, the ras algorithm is still the most reliable encryption algorithm. I have consulted the cryptographic experts at Argonne National Laboratory. But the problem now is that they There is a major security risk in the hype of the ras encryption algorithm. At the same time ... "
After a pause, the Secretary of State continued.
"I understand that China is currently planning to use the latest optical quantum technology to build a new trans-Pacific submarine optical cable as a supplement to the original submarine optical cable. They have proposed to set an example and bear the full cost of this project, only Need our side to cooperate with their work ... "
"... optical optical submarine cable?"
Chewing the word over and over again, there was a playful expression on the president's face.
He has heard about this technology, and it is said that it uses the principles of quantum mechanics to achieve unconditional confidentiality.
Strictly speaking, this is not a new thing. This concept has been proposed as early as the last century, but it has not made any substantial progress because the technology is too difficult.
Regardless of whether the Chinese really have mastered this technology or whether it is so magical, from a political point of view, he cannot promise the Chinese to do so.
Nine of the 13 root servers are in their hands, and although they usually can't make a fuss about this, this at least shows that even if the Internet belongs to all human beings nominally 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 in, and in what form they are transmitted.
To put it plainly, they have no obligation to cooperate with China in sacrificing their own interests.
If it is a traditional submarine fiber optic cable, they only need to send a nuclear submarine and use a mechanical arm to cut the shell of the submarine fiber optic cable a short section, and they can physically eavesdrop on all data passing through the fiber optic cable.
In fact, this is what they and their allies have been doing. Even the pig teammates cut the fiber optic cable once and made a big news.
Now that Hua Guo wants to light up quantum submarine cables, isn't he going to believe in the honest Liberty Goddess?
No wonder they smashed the concept of quantum computers some time ago ...
It turned out to be the idea.
Thinking of this, a trace of the original expression appeared on the president's face.
All the clues ~ EbookFREE.me ~ are connected in his heart.
He suddenly thought of an old Chinese saying, "Drunk old man, doesn't care about wine on the table", which means that behind any suspicious behavior, there is actually another plot.
It is very appropriate to use this sentence to describe the practices of the Chinese people!
"Tell them that it is they who threaten the security of global network information. If they really intend to set an example on the issue of network information security, then let those hackers employed by P stop stopping stealing our state secrets and technology!"
"As for the quantum submarine cable ... the White House is not planning to intervene, but we doubt whether this immature technology can perform 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 "Do you mean ... we reject it directly?"
"Otherwise?" The president said casually, "I saw them at a glance."
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