video conference: The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' budget request for fiscal 2020, to be submitted at the end of August, will include 1.5 billion 14 million for research and development of the technology, they said, according to The Japan Times. Japan envisions a future of communications networks involving satellites that will allow the use of the encryption technology during video conference calls with foreign leaders and exchanges of confidential diplomatic information. The next-generation technology is seen as allowing greater encryption security for diplomatic and business correspondence, and Japan is trying not to fall behind nations like the United States and China, which have invested in quantum information science. ; The government wants an environment in 2025 where quantum encryption can be used across Japan and will study how to use optical fiber networks already in place, the sources said Friday. The technology entails transmitting photons via an optic fiber to the receiving unit, where they turn into a single-use key to decrypt a parallel stream of data. If a third party intercepts the data transmission, the photons will be modified so that there will be no key. Stealing information sent using quantum cryptography methods is difficult, as the photons are in indeterminate states representing various possible patterns of ones and zeros at the same time until they are observed.
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