Spanish operator group Telefónica has set up a secure comms link between two hospitals in Madrid, encrypting it using a quantum key distribution (QKD) system.
The operator, working with hospital group Vithas and technology providers LuxQuanta and QoolNet, plugged the two hospitals together with a quantum fibre optic link, which it says demonstrates the viability of “Quantum-Safe securitisation” of communications, and that it will be possible in the future to guarantee the immunity of sensitive healthcare data from possible attacks from quantum computers.
The firms set up dedicated fibre links connecting the two hospitals and implemented a quantum key distribution (QKD) system, which unlike other alternative methods based on complex mathematical algorithms, the release says is based on “inviolable principles of quantum physics,” no less.
