Toshiba “Unbreakable” Next-Generation Cryptographic Technology To be Commercialized in Japan and Overseas October 19, 0:58
Toshiba officially announced that it will commercialize the next-generation unbreakable cryptographic technology called "quantum cryptography" in Japan, Europe and the United States next year.
As development competition with China and other countries intensifies, we would like to partner with major European and American telecommunications companies to take the top share in the world.
"Quantum cryptography" is a next-generation cryptographic technology that cannot be decrypted even by a quantum computer with computing power far exceeding that of a supercomputer.
Toshiba has officially announced that it will commercialize this quantum cryptography communication in Japan, Europe and the United States next year.
In Japan, we have received an order from the government as a security measure for communication networks, and this is the first commercialization in Japan.
For overseas commercialization, we have partnered with "British Telecom" in the United Kingdom and "Verizon Communications" in the United States.
International competition for quantum cryptography is intensifying, with China setting a policy to spread it throughout the country by 2025.
Toshiba has led research and development with the largest number of patents held in this field in the world, but we aim to be the first to expand our business in Japan and overseas and to hold the top share in the world.
Intensifying development competition in the world
In communications such as the Internet, various data are encrypted and exchanged, but when "quantum computers", which have much higher computing power than supercomputers, come into full-scale use, they are now in use. The code can be easily broken.
For this reason, in the future, in order to protect highly confidential information not only from the viewpoint of private business but also from the aspect of national security, it is said that "quantum cryptography communication" that is absolutely unbreakable using quantum is indispensable. Toshiba expects that the global market size will exceed 2 trillion yen by 2035.
Under these circumstances, China has already put it into practical use in the fields of finance and justice, and is making efforts to spread it throughout China by 2025. South Korea is also a Swiss company whose local telecommunications giant has quantum cryptography technology. International development competition is intensifying, such as the acquisition and commercialization of.