{"id":64438,"date":"2018-08-02T23:10:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ait-to-help-ses-develop-satellite-cybersecurity-system\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T23:10:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:10:20","slug":"ait-to-help-ses-develop-satellite-cybersecurity-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ait-to-help-ses-develop-satellite-cybersecurity-system\/","title":{"rendered":"AIT to Help SES Develop Satellite Cybersecurity System"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>AIT<\/strong> (Austrian Institute of Technology) joined a new a consortium led by <strong>SES <\/strong>and supported by the <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA), to develop a next generation satellite-based cybersecurity system. The consortium will develop the Quantum Cryptography Telecommunication System (QUARTZ) to define, design, and develop a satellite-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system and service architecture. End users could include telecommunication operators, financial organizations, infrastructure providers, institutions, and governmental organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is a method for secret key agreement based on optical communication with quantum signals. Satellite-based QKD can overcome the distance limitations of several hundred kilometers still present in fiber based QKD systems.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next three years, the AIT experts of the optical quantum technologies research group will create next-generation software to enable the distribution of secure keys between optical ground stations on Earth, which will be connected by quantum links with a quantum enabled satellite. The goal is to achieve a reliable, globally available cybersecurity system and deliver next-generation encryption keys to networks in geographically dispersed areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AIT (Austrian Institute of Technology) joined a new a consortium led by SES and supported by the European Space Agency (ESA), to develop a next generation satellite-based cybersecurity system. The consortium will develop the Quantum Cryptography Telecommunication System (QUARTZ) to define, design, and develop a satellite-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system and service architecture. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}