This file photo provided by Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. shows a shipyard of Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. in Ulsan, 414 kilometers southeast of Seoul.
ULSAN, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s largest shipbuilder, Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., said Wednesday that it had introduced quantum cryptography communication technology for the first time among global shipyards, aimed at ensuring stronger security for its defense technologies.
Under the initiative of establishing quantum cryptography communication infrastructure, the company successfully set up a trial network of quantum cryptography communication connecting its special ship business unit, management headquarters and offshore plants.
Quantum cryptography communication ensures secure communication between senders and receivers by using quantum cryptography keys that are impossible to be hacked.
When third parties attempt to steal the information, quantum cryptography communication helps identify such attempts in advance. It is a new information and communications security technology that can block any hacking attempt fundamentally.
The existing cryptography key distribution method-based security system has limits since hackers can decode the cryptography keys by using a quantum computer, which has more powerful computation capability than a supercomputer.
Hyundai Heavy officials said that the introduction of the quantum cryptography communication system would contribute to establishing a more robust security system for the protection of defense and industrial technologies, while laying a foundation for the company to spur more efforts to create 5G-based smart shipyards.
Kevin Lee (kevinlee@koreabizwire.com)
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