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Nokia, Colt, and Honeywell are researching how to protect encrypted data from quantum risks using Low Earth Orbit satellites.
The firms have announced they are working on quantum-safe networking using satellite communications, which involves testing new ways of protecting encrypted optical network traffic from risks that emerge when quantum computing potentially breaks through traditional encryption methods.
These traditional encryption methods rely on mathematical problems that are difficult for computers to solve, explains the release, but the potential bigger heft of computational power promised by quantum computers could roll over traditional cryptography, it is theorised.
