“Safe communications are important for defence and strategic businesses world over and distribution of encryption keys every now and then is a crucial requirement on this context… Quantum primarily based communication affords a strong resolution to sharing the keys securely,” mentioned an official assertion.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated the DRDO for profitable demonstration of QKD-based communication between its two labs in Hyderabad, mentioned the assertion.
The Defence Analysis and Growth Laboratory (DRDL) and The Analysis Centre Imarat (RCI) had been the 2 labs that participated on this demonstration.
“Quantum Communication utilizing the time-bin QKD scheme was carried out below reasonable situations. The setup additionally demonstrated the validation of detection of a 3rd occasion attempting to achieve information of the communication,” the assertion added.