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[Veni Markovski]

Vint and colleagues,
What do you know / think about this?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40565722

China set to launch an 'unhackable' internet communication

...
Leaving the West behind

If quantum communication can help to secure online communications, why is
China so far ahead?

"For a long time people simply didn't think it was needed," says Prof
Myungshik Kim of Imperial College, London, adding that it was not clear
whether there was a commercial market for this technology.

"The mathematical difficulty of the current coding system was so high that
it was not thought necessary to implement the new technology," he says.

The research itself is not new and China does not have an edge over the
competition. Where it does have an advantage is when it comes to
applications.

"Europe has simply missed the boat," says Prof Anton Zeilinger, a quantum
physicist at Vienna University in Austria and a pioneer in the field.

He says he tried to convince the EU as early as 2004 to fund more
quantum-based projects but it had little effect.

"Europe has been dragging its feet and this has hindered us from being able
to compete," he says.

There are quantum key-based networks operating in the US and Europe but
most are being carried out as research projects, rather than with
commercial partners...

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Best regards,
Veni
http://veni.com

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