Security News > 2019 > August > Quantum computing: The new moonshot in the cyber space race

In 2016, China launched Micius, the world’s first quantum communications enabled satellite. For some, that launch eerily echoed the launch of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik satellite in 1957, which caught the United States off guard and spurred a decades-long contest to regain and maintain global technological and military supremacy. The parallel wasn’t lost on the Chinese. Jian-Wei Pan, the lead researcher on the Micius project, hailed the start of “a worldwide quantum space race.” Indeed, … More → The post Quantum computing: The new moonshot in the cyber space race appeared first on Help Net Security.

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