By Staff Correspondent
India is slated to be a member of the elite club as the Indian army is set to possess Quantum Communication Technology with equipped troops and a high-end secured defence system.
It will soon possess indigenous and more advanced quantum communication technology with equipped troops and a high-end secured defence system. With the support of Innovation for Defence Excellence (iDEX), and Defence Innovation Organisation, the QNu Labs, a Bangalore-based deep tech start-up, has innovated advanced secured communication through Quantum Key Distribution (QKD). The Defence Ministry has initiated the procurement process of QNu Labs developed QKD systems by issuing a commercial Request for Proposal (REF) after the successful trials.
The leading countries in the QKD systems are China, the US, Canada, and other European countries. A QKD system allows the creation of a quantum secure secret pair of symmetric keys between two points separated by a certain distance in terrestrial optical fibre infrastructure. Indian Defence officials also considered this innovation a milestone in the Azadi ka Amrit Kaal. According to the Ministry of Defence, QKD helps to create a non-hackable quantum channel for creating un-hackable encryption keys, which are used to encrypt critical data.