Archiv: quantum technology / Quantentechnologie


07.03.2025 - 11:40 [ theQuantumInsider.com ]

China Launches Its Own Quantum-Resistant Encryption Standards, Bypassing US Efforts

(February 18, 2025)

That, in itself might not be seen as an unusual initiative, but experts see China’s decision to pursue an independent cryptographic standard as a strategic move. As reported by New Scientist, China may be avoiding US-led encryption initiatives due to concerns over potential “back doors” that could allow US intelligence agencies to access encrypted communications. There is also speculation that China may seek to integrate its own covert access points into its encryption protocols.

07.03.2025 - 11:37 [ Infosecurity Magazine ]

Microsoft’s Quantum Chip Breakthrough Accelerates Threat to Encryption Protocols

(February 21, 2025)

However, the announcement has also underscored the urgency of organizations transitioning to post-quantum cryptography. This is because quantum computers of this scale will be able to rapidly solve mathematical equations that make up current encryption protocols, such as RSA and AES.

Such a scenario will leave data, connections and components used by all organizations exposed.

Malicious actors are also believed to be already stockpiling encrypted data in anticipation of quantum technology to mature, in what are known as ‘harvest now, decrypt later’ attacks.

22.10.2023 - 00:10 [ BreakingDefense.com ]

‘All systems need to be hardened’: Officials, industry sound the alarm on quantum threat to encryption

(September 29, 2023)

Such an all-conquering computer doesn’t actually exist yet. But there lies the paradox of what’s called quantum-resistant or “post-quantum” encryption: You don’t need a quantum computer to start laying the foundations for a quantum-powered hack — or, fortunately, to start building a defense.

The threat is a tactic called “collect now, decrypt later.” Well-heeled foreign intelligence agencies (and the American NSA) already scoop up terabytes of encrypted communication. Whatever they can’t crack today can just go into long-term storage, waiting for quantum computers to get powerful enough to break them.

22.10.2023 - 00:05 [ hpcwire.com ]

EuroHPC Announces First Exascale Supercomputer and Four Other Systems

(June 15, 2022)

JUPITER, EuroHPC says, will be the first European exascale supercomputer when it is installed in 2023. It will be hosted by the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (FZJ) in a specially designed building.

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But that wasn’t all: EuroHPC also announced four additional sites for “mid-range supercomputers with petascale or pre-exascale capabilities”: Greece, Hungary, Ireland and Poland.

21.10.2023 - 23:23 [ North Atlantic Treaty Organization ]

NATO Secretary General calls for creation of a transatlantic quantum community, welcomes Denmark’s leadership

(29 Sep. 2023)

Later in the day, the Secretary General opened the new NATO accelerator site “Deep Tech Lab – Quantum” together with the Danish Minister of Defence, Troels Lund Poulsen; the Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs, Morten Bødskov; and the Minister of Higher Education and Science, Christina Egelund. The Lab will help start-ups from across the Alliance commercialise quantum-enabled solutions, as part of NATO’s new Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA).

DIANA consists of a network of test centers and accelerator sites across NATO countries, where innovators develop new technologies to solve pressing security challenges. The Deep Tech Lab – Quantum in Copenhagen is one of five pilot accelerator sites launched in 2023.

10.09.2023 - 18:55 [ BBC ]

What‘s happening in Parliament next week?

Main debate: MPs consider Lords amendments to the extensively paused and re-written Online Safety Bill.

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The government now says that the tech regulator, Ofcom, would only require companies to scan their networks for harmful material, like child sexual abuse and exploitation content, when a technology was developed that was capable of doing so – thus kicking the issue into the very long grass.

22.05.2023 - 00:34 [ IBM ]

IBM Launches $100 Million Partnership with Global Universities to Develop Novel Technologies Towards a 100,000-Qubit Quantum-Centric Supercomputer

Over the next decade, IBM plans to work with university partners and its worldwide quantum ecosystem to evolve how its quantum processors can be connected via quantum interconnects. This work will aim to enable high-efficiency, high-fidelity inter-processor quantum operations and a reliable, flexible, and affordable system component infrastructure to allow scaling to 100,000 qubits.

IBM‘s collaboration with the University of Chicago will build upon the Chicago area‘s strengths in quantum research. The University of Chicago seeded the region‘s quantum ecosystem more than a decade ago with the decision to make quantum technology a focus of what is now the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering.

22.05.2023 - 00:10 [ datacenter-insider.de/ ]

IBM hat seinen ersten 1.000-Qubit-Computer für den On-Premises-Einsatz verkauft

(23.06.2021)

Der Schutz der Qubits vor Störeinflüssen aus der Umgebung stand bei der Entwicklung von Anfang an an erster Stelle. Die empfindliche Instrumentierung wird in einem neun Fuß mal neun Fuß großen, luftdichten Gehäuse untergebracht, das aus einem halben Zoll dicken Borosilikatglas besteht, wobei der Kryostat, die Steuerelektronik und der Rahmen strukturell von den Kernkomponenten isoliert sind.

22.05.2023 - 00:05 [ datacenterdynamics.com ]

IBM begins installing on-premise quantum computer at Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic

(October 24, 2022)

Cleveland Clinic will also be home to the world’s first on-premise Q System Two – IBM’s ‘next generation 1,000+ qubit‘ system – in the future. The company‘s most powerful quantum chip is currently the 127-qubit Eagle, announced last year; the 433-qubit Osprey is due to launch sometime this year.

21.05.2023 - 22:59 [ American Mathematical Society ]

The Mathematics Behind Quantum Computing: Part I

(May 2007)

For a 1024-bit number, Shor‘s Algorithm requires on the order of 1024(3), about one billion, operations. I do not have any information on how quickly quantum operations can be executed, but if each one took one second our factorization would last 34 years. If a quantum computer could run at the speed of today‘s electronic computers (100 million instructions per second and up) then factorization of the 1024-bit number would be a matter of seconds.

21.05.2023 - 21:33 [ Nature.com ]

The race to save the Internet from quantum hackers

(08 February 2022)

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04.02.2023 - 10:41 [ White House ]

National Security Memorandum on Promoting United States Leadership in Quantum Computing While Mitigating Risks to Vulnerable Cryptographic Systems

(May 04, 2022)

A classified annex to this memorandum addresses sensitive national security issues.

Section 1. Policy. (a) Quantum computers hold the potential to drive innovations across the American economy, from fields as diverse as materials science and pharmaceuticals to finance and energy. While the full range of applications of quantum computers is still unknown, it is nevertheless clear that America’s continued technological and scientific leadership will depend, at least in part, on the Nation’s ability to maintain a competitive advantage in quantum computing and QIS. 

(b) Yet alongside its potential benefits, quantum computing also poses significant risks to the economic and national security of the United States. Most notably, a quantum computer of sufficient size and sophistication — also known as a cryptanalytically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) — will be capable of breaking much of the public-key cryptography used on digital systems across the United States and around the world. When it becomes available, a CRQC could jeopardize civilian and military communications, undermine supervisory and control systems for critical infrastructure, and defeat security protocols for most Internet-based financial transactions.

04.02.2023 - 10:26 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

ZITiS baut Supercomputer zur Entschlüsselung

(16.10.2018)

Dieser Supercomputer hat „höchste Priorität“ für die ZITiS-Abnehmer Verfassungsschutz, Bundeskriminalamt und Bundespolizei.

Vor zwei Wochen wurde bekannt, dass ZITiS auch einen Quantencomputer einsetzen will. Ob Supercomputer und Quantencomputer verschiedene Projekte sind, will ZITiS auf Anfrage nicht verraten:

04.02.2023 - 10:17 [ Cnet.com ]

IBM now has 18 quantum computers in its fleet of weird machines

(May 6, 2020)

Eighteen quantum computers might not sound like a lot. But given that each one is an unwieldy device chilled within a fraction of a degree above absolute zero and operated by Ph.D. researchers, it‘s actually a pretty large fleet. In comparison, Google‘s quantum computers lab near Santa Barbara, California, has only five machines, and Honeywell only has six quantum computers.

04.02.2023 - 10:04 [ acm.org ]

How Quantum Computer Could Break 2,048-Bit RSA Encryption in 8 Hours

(June 5, 2019)

Google‘s Craig Gidney and KTH‘s Martin Ekera demonstrated that a quantum system could crack 2,048-bit RSA encryption with just 20 million quantum bits (qubits), rather than requiring 1 billion qubits as previously theorized, in only eight hours with this technique.

The technique uses modular exponentiation, a mathematical process for finding the remainder when a number is raised to a certain power and divided by another number.

Gidney and Ekera have formulated various ways to optimize this process, reducing the resources required to run the large-number-factoring Shor‘s algorithm.

04.02.2023 - 10:02 [ securityweek.com ]

Data Protection Cyber Insights 2023 | Quantum Computing and the Coming Cryptopocalypse

(February 2, 2023)

The one thing we can say with certainty is that it definitely won’t happen in 2023 – probably. That probably comes from not knowing for certain what stage in the journey to quantum computing has been achieved by foreign nations or their intelligence agencies – and they’re not likely to tell us. Nevertheless, it is assumed that nobody yet has a quantum computer powerful enough to run Shor’s algorithm and crack PKI encryption in a meaningful timeframe.

04.10.2022 - 19:55 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

„Verzwicktes Problem“: Europol erwägt Schwachstellennutzung, um Verschlüsselung zu brechen

Seit mindestens sieben Jahren suchen die EU-Mitgliedstaaten nach Wegen, um ihren Strafverfolgungsbehörden Zugang zu verschlüsselten Inhalten zu ermöglichen.

04.10.2022 - 19:53 [ Heise.de ]

Quantencomputer in Deutschland

(2021)

Seit Januar 2021 kann sich auch Deutschland mit einem ersten funktionsfähigen Quantencomputer brüsten. Doch zumindest seine Produktion fand noch im Ausland statt: Fast ein Jahr dauerte der Bau des IBM Q System One in den USA. Dabei war der Zeitaufwand für den physischen Aufbau mit einer Dauer von knapp zwei Monaten recht überschaubar. Das Gros der Arbeitszeit nahm, wie bei Quantencomputern üblich, die Kalibrierung der Qubits ein, um Fehlerraten zu verringern und Kohärenzzeiten möglichst zu verlängern. Zudem wurde die tatsächliche Installation des Systems in Ehningen durch die Coronapandemie erschwert.

04.10.2022 - 19:42 [ IBM.com ]

What Angela Merkel and IBM’s CEO have in common…

(October 2, 2019)

Instead, the German government’s backing for Quantum Computing research sealed between Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ginni Rometty (IBM CEO) indicates that both are excited about the latest technology and how it can improve the world we live in. Ultimately solving problems that seemed completely impossible just a few years ago – also from Europe.

The goal for Merkel and Germany? To catch up with China and the USA in the global technology race.

04.10.2022 - 19:24 [ Cnet ]

IBM now has 18 quantum computers in its fleet of weird machines

(May 6, 2020)

Eighteen quantum computers might not sound like a lot. But given that each one is an unwieldy device chilled within a fraction of a degree above absolute zero and operated by Ph.D. researchers, it‘s actually a pretty large fleet. In comparison, Google‘s quantum computers lab near Santa Barbara, California, has only five machines, and Honeywell only has six quantum computers.

04.10.2022 - 18:36 [ Weltwirtschaftsforum / World Economic Forum ]

Quantum leap: why the next wave of computers will change the world

(29 Oct 2019)

(29 Oct 2019)

To break a widely used RSA 2048-bit encryption, a classical computer with one trillion operations per second would need around 300 trillion years. This is such a long time that we all feel very safe.

A quantum computer using Shor‘s algorithm could achieve the same feat in just 10 seconds, with a modest 1 million operations per second. That‘s the power of quantum computers: 300 trillion years versus 10 seconds.

04.10.2022 - 18:32 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Nobelpreis für Quantenforscher: Die Physik des Unvorstellbaren

Heute sind diese Erkenntnisse der Quantenphysik die Grundlage für künftige Technologien. Dazu zählen der Bau von extrem leistungsfähigen Quantencomputern, die sichere Übermittlung von Nachrichten durch Quantenverschlüsselung oder die Entwicklung künstlicher Intelligenz.

27.09.2022 - 01:10 [ Erich Moechel / fm4.ORF.at ]

In Brüssel hat das Match um Data-Mining begonnen

Alle nur denkbaren Plattformen für Möglichkeiten zur interpersonellen Kommunikation sollen verpflichtet werden, nicht nur weite Teile ihres Datenverkehrs auf Vorrat zu speichern, sondern auch Daten zu erheben – etwa von persönlichen Chats – die bisher nicht gespeichert wurden. Diese auf Vorrat gespeicherten, zu riesigen Volumina aggregierten Daten sollen dann in einem neu zu errichtenden „EU Centre“ mit Data-Mining und KI-Anwendungen – beides gehört organisch zusammen – auf sogenannte „Kinderpornographie“ durchsucht werden. Tatsächlich wird diese Centre, das obendrein auf dem Gelände von Europol in Den Haag angesiedelt werden soll, ein europäisches Kompetenzzentrum für Überwachung mit Methoden aus dem Komplex Big-Data, Data-Mining und sogenannter „Künstlicher Intelligenz“. Diese Verordnung sollt noch im Herbst im EU-Parlament auftauchen.

24.09.2022 - 23:55 [ Euractiv.com ]

EU’s contempt for encryption puts all Europeans at risk

Every Internet user will find themselves more easily surveilled by the state and other actors. For Central and Eastern Europeans, where analogue surveillance and political retaliation were conducted within their lifetimes, the proposal would be a depressing rollback of the freedoms hard-won by previous generations.

Members of the LGBTQ+ community, abuse survivors, refugees, and minority groups that are the targets of discrimination or attack, will no longer find refuge on the Internet. Professions such as journalists, who depend upon encryption to keep themselves and their sources safe, will be less able to investigate corruption and criminality. The murders of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in recent years are a reminder of the high stakes for reporters who are exposed.

24.09.2022 - 21:58 [ Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon / Nitter ]

Wow: Dank unermüdlicher Kampagnen gegen #biometrischeMassenüberwachung will nun die Mehrheit im EU-Parlament ein Verbot im #AIAct verankern. Wir lassen nicht locker, bis Gesichtserkennung im öffentlichen Raum endgültig verboten ist

24.09.2022 - 21:42 [ BiometricUpdate.com ]

EU parliament majority now in favor of banning AI surveillance in public

(23.09.2022)

According to the document, some EU countries are pushing to add more exemptions for law enforcement.

These include the police being able to use real-time facial recognition (RTFR) to prevent any “substantial threat” to critical infrastructure. The exceptions join the list, which already includes searching for kidnapping victims and suspects of crime.

German liberal Svenja Hahn told Politico that negotiations are still ongoing, but the EU parliament will formally try to secure its position on the matter by the end of the year.

24.09.2022 - 21:09 [ AlgorithmWatch.org ]

A guide to the AI Act, the EU’s upcoming AI rulebook you should watch out for

(28.08.2022)

The unfolding of this is being attentively watched by other global players as the law will also have an effect outside the EU.

Currently, the EU Parliament and EU Council are each negotiating the draft written by the EU Commission within their own institutions. After this, the three bodies will go into trilogue negotiations.

Here is a guide for you to understand this new regulation and the political processes around it.

25.05.2022 - 20:07 [ science.ORF.at ]

Quanteninternet: Erstmals Teleportation in Netzwerk gelungen

Bei diesem von Albert Einstein als „spukhafte Fernwirkung“ abgetanen quantenphysikalischen Phänomen bleiben zwei verschränkte Teilchen wie von Zauberhand miteinander verbunden und teilen ihre physikalischen Eigenschaften. Die Messung an einem legt unmittelbar den Zustand des anderen fest, auch wenn sie beliebig weit voneinander entfernt sind.

Die Teleportation ermöglicht damit die zuverlässige Übertragung von Quanteninformationen zwischen weit entfernten Knoten.

19.10.2021 - 07:24 [ theRegister.com ]

EU and US seek ‚common principles‘ for data governance and AI

(30.09.2021)

Launched by president Joe Biden, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, and European Council president Charles Michel at the U.S.-EU Summit in June 2021, the Council held its first meeting yesterday.

At the meeting, the United States and European Union decided to closely coordinate on an expansive set of critical economic and technology issues over the coming months and achieve concrete outcomes by the next meeting. These include joint work on the semi-conductor supply chain and Artificial Intelligence, as well as data governance, the joint statement said.

20.09.2021 - 23:32 [ Christiane Amanpour, @CNN Chief International Anchor / Twitter ]

Exclusive: @EU_Commission President @vonderleyen reacts to the AUKUS fallout. “One of our member states has been treated in a way that is not acceptable,” she tells me. “We want to know what happened and why.”

Full interview airs at 7pCET @CNNi
and tonight @PBS
(listings vary).

20.09.2021 - 23:27 [ ORF.at ]

U-Boot-Streit: Biden um Beschwichtigung bemüht

EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen hat das Vorgehen der USA, Australiens und Großbritanniens gegenüber Frankreich im Streit um einen geplatzten U-Boot-Deal als „nicht akzeptabel“ bezeichnet. „Es gibt viele offene Fragen, die beantwortet werden müssen“, sagte von der Leyen in einem Interview mit dem US-Sender CNN, von dem heute Ausschnitte beim Onlinedienst Twitter veröffentlicht wurden.

20.09.2021 - 17:31 [ Institution of Engineering and Technology - theiet.org ]

View from Washington: Aukus looms over AI and quantum

Then, some of the more notable consequences may be for the global research infrastructure, one that had become increasingly freewheeling since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Some familiar voices are already proclaiming Aukus as evidence of the ‘Brexit dividend’. Never mind the facts that technological collaboration between the three members is already taking place through the Five Eyes intelligence alliance (with New Zealand and Canada, both not part of this agreement);