{"id":141262,"date":"2021-10-14T19:27:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T13:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=141262"},"modified":"2021-10-20T14:43:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T09:13:22","slug":"telecom-secretary-asks-c-dot-to-work-on-6g-launches-quantum-communication-lab-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/telecom-secretary-asks-c-dot-to-work-on-6g-launches-quantum-communication-lab-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Telecom secretary asks C-DoT to work on 6G, launches Quantum Communication Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Telecom secretary asks C-DoT to work on 6G, launches Quantum Communication Lab<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> Economic Times <\/b>on<b> 13th October 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Centre for Development of Telematics<\/strong> (C-DOT), the premier telecom R&amp;D centre of the <strong>Department of Telecommunications<\/strong> has unveiled an indigenously developed <strong>Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)<\/strong> solution Lab.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is <\/b><b>Quantum Key Distribution<\/b><b>(QKD)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quantum Key Distribution<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (QKD) is a secure communication technique that uses quantum properties of photons, the elementary particles of light, to encrypt secret keys that can be shared by two parties to protect their communications.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What makes QKD unbreakable?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The security of QKD stems from the ability to detect any intrusion on the QKD transmission. Because of the unique and fragile properties of photons, any third party (or eavesdropper) who tries to read or copy the photons in any way will change the photons\u2019 state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The change will be detected by the endpoints, alerting them that the key has been tampered with and must be discarded. A new key is then transmitted. Moreover, since the keys generated are truly random, they are protected from future hacking attempts.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Why is there a need for QKD?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Typical encryption relies on traditional mathematics, and while for now, it is more or less adequate and safe from hacking. But the development of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-pm-picking-up-the-quantum-technology-baton-23rd-march-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">quantum computing <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">threatens that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s why the world needs a more secure means of encryption and QKD was found to be the only provably secure communication method because it uses physics \u2013 not math \u2013 to encrypt data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Telecom secretary asks C-DoT to work on 6G, launches Quantum Communication Lab<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> Economic Times <\/b>on<b> 13th October 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: This post is based on the article \u201cTelecom secretary asks C-DoT to work on 6G, launches Quantum Communication Lab\u201d published in Economic Times on 13th October 2021. What is the News? Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), the premier telecom R&amp;D centre of the Department of Telecommunications has unveiled an indigenously developed Quantum Key&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/telecom-secretary-asks-c-dot-to-work-on-6g-launches-quantum-communication-lab-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Telecom secretary asks C-DoT to work on 6G, launches Quantum Communication Lab<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10312,10311,10310],"class_list":["post-141262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-quantum-computing","tag-quantum-key-distribution","tag-quantum-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704792188},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}