The falling victim in an online hacking scheme is already a common item whenever your face is focused on a screen. It could be a false ad, annoying pop-up, or even an email posing as another person to get your trust. But in the near future, this may change. Thanks to a few British scientists that demonstrated a prototype quantum network that could secure the accounts of each human being on the internet against hackers.
Quantum network-- a solution to solve a hacking problem
Daily Mail UK reported about The University of Bristol, England's newest discovery in terms of the world's internet service. Scientists in the university have told the press about the technology they recently demonstrated to fix the theory of 'unhackable' internet.
Using quantum physics and quantum technology, researchers created a secured network or system that splits light particles that carry information to multiple internet users from a single central source. Or simply saying a quantum entanglement.
Quantum entanglement happens when two particles that are even a million meters apart can still simultaneously copy each other. This process has in connection with information processing and even quantum computers.
This technology, once studied, even more, could make online messaging as private as it should be compared today. The quantum network would not allow any interception within the system. In layman's term, it will prevent hackers from accessing your messages on social media.
"This represents a massive breakthrough and makes the quantum internet a much more realistic proposition,' said study author Dr. Siddarth Joshi at the University of Bristol's Quantum Engineering Technology (QET) Labs. "Until now, building a quantum network has entailed huge cost, time, and resource, as well as often compromising on its security, which defeats the whole purpose."
"Our solution is scalable, relatively cheap, and, most important of all, impregnable. That means it's an exciting game-changer and paves the way for much more rapid development and widespread rollout of this technology."
How they came up with the idea
Generally speaking, internet connectivity is being connected through a physical connection like glass fiber. In this case, it was different.
The researchers only created a system where every user only has a single glass fiber connected to a source of quantum entanglement.
The University of Bristol first created a network for eight users using receiver boxes monitored within the lab, each receiving information from the single system.
To know the reliability of their distance, the boxes were connected to optical fibers across the area and transmit messages via quantum communication through the city's existing optical fiber network.
Scientists behind the experiment believe that multiplexing could lower each region's costs with its communication from over $6 billion to around $6 million, which is less than 1%.
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Written by Jamie Pancho