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

A piece of news about the major breakthrough in quantum communication technology of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study suddenly appeared on the Internet, and the voice of heated discussion was boiling for a while.

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

However, unlike the news of the quantum computer, 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 Chinese academic community and in the hearts of the Chinese people, the credibility of this news in the hearts of the vast majority of people is still very large.

Thinking of the collapse of SUB in the No. 3 Asia-Pacific submarine cable project some time ago, many people are speculating that perhaps Huaguo is planning 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 questioning voices to be slapped in the face.

First, the "Trans-Pacific Submarine Cable Management Committee" was inaugurated in Shanghai, followed by the announcement of the list of participating countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Then, the Transpacific Submarine Cable Management Committee launched a tender process and published the tender requirements for the Transpacific submarine cable project. The requirements clearly mention that in order to ensure the security of Internet information, this submarine fiber optic cable will use the latest quantum communication technology, and major submarine cable companies are welcome to actively bid and compete fairly.

In the face of such a request, whether it is Japan's NEC or the United States' sub company, they all have a bewildered expression.

Transpacific Quantum Fiber Optic Cable?

Why don't you go to heaven?

……

Across the Pacific Ocean, the White House residence.

The president, who was sitting behind the desk, pinched his somewhat sour eyebrows, looked at FBI Director Mike Rubledon who walked to the desk, and said in a tired tone.

"What happened to the results of the investigation?"

More than 200 spies and their downlines were wiped out by the Chinese security services.

This not only made their intelligence work completely passive, but also caused them to lose face in the international arena, and the entire diplomatic strategy fell into an embarrassing situation.

In particular, at a time when the United States is constantly condemning other countries for stealing its own secrets, it is even more interesting that such a thing suddenly broke out.

Espionage is extremely disgraceful at any given time, and even if the C.I.A.A's operations overseas are almost an open secret, they are covered with a fig leaf.

Although the White House flatly denied it and said that it had no knowledge of the matter, in the face of those mountains of ironclad evidence, no matter how fierce the denial, it seemed a little weak.

When such a serious thing happens, it is not something that can be exposed by a director who has stepped down, and the cause of such a result must be found at the source.

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

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

"To our surprise, although I am 10,000 willing to believe that the CIA boys betrayed us, all the direct or indirect investigative evidence points to the innocence of those suspended officials......

Facing the president's sharp eyes, Director Brighton continued expressionlessly.

“…… It's not exonerating the CIA, in fact I'd rather send them all to jail. But all the evidence does suggest that this heavy accident may not be due to internal ghosts. ”

THE 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 officers, Hua Guo may have mastered a round-the-clock surveillance device that can extract the information they need from our intelligence network in a way that we cannot detect." ”

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

"Is it mind-reading or dementoring?"

"I'm not kidding," said Director Brighton earnestly, "and I propose to set up a special investigation team to investigate this matter." In order to prevent a recurrence of the tragedy, we must give them a high degree of decision-making power on the spot, use all means when necessary, and maintain radio silence until the truth is clarified, and no one knows their identities except themselves...... Including you and me. ”

The president's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said in an unkind tone.

"Do you suspect that I and the Chinese people leaked the secret?"

"I don't," said Director Brighton, grimacingly, "but it's necessary." ”

Just then, footsteps could be heard outside the office.

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

"Mr. President," he knocked on the door, only to see the Secretary of State walk in from outside, glance at Director Brighton, who was standing at his desk, and continued, "...... I have an important matter to report to you, but...... If your conversation with Mr. Brighton is not over, I can go outside and wait a while. ”

"No need," said the President, looking at Director Brighton, who was silent for a moment in his expectant eyes, "and doing as you say." ”

Finally relieved, Director Brighton nodded.

"Yes."

With that, he turned around and left the president's office, closed the door and walked away.

Looking at the direction in which Director Brighton had disappeared, the Secretary of State raised his eyebrows and asked curiously as he looked at the President.

"Is it a matter of the ghosts in the CIA? Did anyone catch it? ”

"No," said the president, in an unkind tone, "just talk about you." ”

"The Chinese embassy came to visit me just now."

As soon as he heard the word Huaguo, the president had a headache, stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyebrows and said.

"Another protest?"

"It's not ...... this time," the secretary continued, with a subtle look on his face, "and this time they didn't mention the spy at all, but made an irrelevant proposal." ”

"What proposal?"

"In order to cope with the deteriorating cyber information security situation, they proposed to set up a professional working group composed of experts from multiple countries to update the encryption algorithms that are commonly used in the world."

"Updating the encryption algorithm? What do you mean," the president asked, frowning, puzzled, "is there anything wrong with the current encryption algorithm?" ”

SECRETARY: "No problem, at least as far as I know." Until now, the RAS algorithm is still the most reliable encryption algorithm, which I consulted with cryptography experts at Argonne National Laboratory. But the problem now is that they're hyping up the RAS encryption algorithm as having a major security breach. At the same time......"

After a pause, the Secretary continued.

"I understand that Huaguo is recently planning to build a new transpacific submarine fiber optic cable using the latest optical quantum technology to supplement the existing submarine fiber optic cable. They offered to set an example and bear the full cost of the project, as long as we cooperated with them......"

“…… Optical quantum submarine fiber optic cable? ”

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

He had heard of this technology, which was said to use the principles of quantum mechanics and was able to keep it unconditionally secret.

Strictly speaking, this is not a new thing, and this concept has been proposed since the last century, but because of the technical difficulty, no substantial progress has been made.

Regardless of whether the Chinese people really mastered this technology, and whether this technology was really so magical, from a political point of view, it was impossible for him to allow the Chinese people to do so.

Nine of the 13 root servers are in their possession, and while they don't usually have a big deal to do with it, it at least shows that even though the Internet, like Antarctica, is nominally all of humanity, its center is still in the United States.

Only they are qualified to define the standards of the Internet.

Including what kind of algorithm each byte of data is encrypted and in what form they are transmitted.

To put it bluntly, they have no obligation to sacrifice their own interests to cooperate with Huaguo in doing so.

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

In fact, this is what they and their allies have been doing, and they even cut the fiber optic cable once by their pig teammates, and made a big news.

Now that Huaguo wants to engage in optical quantum submarine fiber optic cables, do you intend to believe in the honest Lady of Liberty?

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

That's the idea.

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

All the clues are connected in his heart.

He suddenly remembered that there is an old saying in Huaguo, "A drunk old man doesn't care about the wine on the table", which means that behind any suspicious behavior, there is actually another plan.

It is so apt to use this sentence to describe the practices of those Chinese people!

"Tell them that it is themselves who threaten the security of the global network, and if they really want to set an example on the issue of network security, then let the hackers who are employed by the PLA stop stealing our state secrets and technology!"

"As for quantum submarine fiber optic cables...... The White House does not intend to intervene in business practices, but we are skeptical that this immature technology can take on such a critical and important task. Unless they can prove that the technology is reliable enough, we won't allow it to land on North American soil. ”

SECRETARY: "What do you mean...... Do we reject it outright? ”

"Or else?" The president said nonchalantly, "I can see through their tricks at a glance." ”