(AsiaNikkei) Japan has joined the quantum computing fray by enlisting the help of the private sector. Japan’s government will earmark funds to build quantum-encrypted communications systems in a supplementary budget for fiscal 2019. The first move will be to set up and test a framework for sending critical national-security information by such agencies as the Ministry of Defense and National Police Agency.
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