Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2333 E2EE
This Probakar Rahman has a high status in the computer academic circle, far higher than Shen Xiangyang.However, Ziweixing is a commercial company, oriented to the market, so the level of academic status is irrelevant, it has to be market-oriented scientific research.

It is impossible for technology companies to do pure scientific research, not for the sake of scientific research, and the ultimate goal is to commercialize and make money.

In the scientific research industry, it must be composed of universities, scientific research institutions funded by the state, and private technology companies. Technology companies are only the last link, which is the link of commercial realization.

Yahoo seems to be in decline, and can't find a truly suitable top scientist, so it chose an American academician and academician to lead Yahoo's global research institute.

Really top technology giants, such as Microsoft, Apple, Google, Oracle, their chief scientists are often far away from the academic circle, may have never published papers in their lives, and are engaged in market-oriented scientific research.

If technology companies are allowed to do the work that universities and scientific research institutes supported by state finances should undertake, it will really be a huge waste of scientific research for the company, and no company can afford it.

At the beginning, Silicon Valley was just the technology park of Stanford University.

Domestic technology companies are criticized in the field of research and development. The most important reason is that the entire scientific research industry system has not been established.It is impossible to expect technology companies to excel in the last link without establishing the first few links.

What's more, the previous link may have produced results, but this belongs to the state, and it must be carefully opened to private capital. This is even more embarrassing. Ma Pingshan even went to South Korea to make drones. Go to buy technology every day, relying on universities on Hong Kong Island to provide technical support.

Zhou Buqi wants to divert the scientific research route, and the main diversion is Ziweixing International.

The existing domestic scientific research industry structure determines that it can only be imitated.

The support provided by upstream universities and scientific research institutes is limited, and technology companies lack sufficient reference for scientific research, so they can only follow suit from the existing relatively mature directions abroad.

Therefore, Yahoo has only one research center for applied scientific research, which is located in the capital of China, and domestic scientific research elites are concentrated in this field.

As for Yahoo's research institute, it is mainly based in the United States.

However, this does not mean that the course of the Yahoo Research Institute is necessarily correct. The current dean, Probakar Rahman, is an academic leader. I am afraid that his thinking has not come out, and it is easy to stay in the understanding of scientific research in universities. It is scientific research for the sake of science and scientific research for the sake of scientific research. It is not good to leave the upstream of the scientific research industry to the downstream Yahoo.

Not only wasting a lot of scientific research funds, but also it is difficult to come up with too many scientific research results.

Zhou Buqi said: "Yahoo's scientific research business will be merged into Ziweixing International's research institute system, or a bicameral system, the research institute and the engineering institute."

Shen Xiangyang said: "He can be the director of Ziweixing International's research institute."

"Oh?"

"His network is wide, his industry status is high, and his students are all over Silicon Valley."

"En." Zhou Buqi nodded, "Okay, let him report to you anyway, you are now the senior vice president and chief technology officer of Ziwei International?"

Shen Xiangyang smiled, "Almost, the chairman of the technical committee."

Zhou Buqi said: "Then arrange it like this. Anyway, you will be at the helm of all technical matters. I don't doubt Rahman's level, but I'm afraid that his scientific research ideas are too academic-oriented. You have to grasp this balance. "

Shen Xiangyang said: "Yahoo's technical foundation is very solid, much stronger than Ziweixing."

"What's the use of thick technology?" Zhou Buqi disagreed, "Hasn't it been defeated in business? How much practical value can the technical achievements accumulated by Yahoo have?"

Shen Xiangyang was silent for a while, and said slowly: "It is always good to have accumulation. Just like a warehouse, there are a lot of things stored in the warehouse, which may not be used once for several years. But if you really need to use it, buy it now and make it now." It’s slow, and you can take out the bottom of the box directly from the warehouse. Ziweixing International is developing very fast, but there is a huge hidden danger that there are too few things in the warehouse. Once we encounter a sudden change in technology, we If you can’t keep up in time, you will be easily left behind by the times. The things in the warehouse may never be used, but their existence is a kind of guarantee.”

Zhou Buqi blinked, "Technology is updated so fast, is it not outdated?"

Shen Xiangyang smiled and said: "It will indeed be outdated, but the most important thing about technology is to choose the right route. The route is determined, and the rest of the details can be updated."

"Ah."

Zhou Buqi nodded.

He has a deep understanding of this.

These scientists in Ziweixing basically never write codes. For example, Dr. Wang Jian, the chief technology officer of Ziweixing, is called a "doctor of psychology" internally. , Light it up for everyone to see!
Dr. Wang Jian happily agreed.

But it was never written.

At this level, more is the choice of technical direction.He determined the technical direction and provided a simple research idea, and then asked a technical team composed of young people to implement it.

Shen Xiangyang said: "In my opinion, the commercial aspect is the second most important value of acquiring Yahoo. If Ziweixing International wants to stand shoulder to shoulder with those technology giants in Silicon Valley, it must have enough inventory in the technology warehouse. Based in Silicon Valley. In the past few years, Ziweixing International has achieved great success in business, but it is strong on the outside and in the middle.”

Zhou Buqi twitched the corners of his mouth, "Is it so serious? Aren't we the best artificial intelligence company in the world, comparable to Google."

Shen Xiangyang said with a smile: "Innumerable technological exploration directions, artificial intelligence is only one of them. In the past few years, our main scientific research direction has been placed on cloud computing and artificial intelligence, and it is far behind in other fields. Woolen cloth!"

"for example?"

"For example... For example, the last time Luji asked me to talk about Helo, I hope that I can provide a new communication encryption technology called E2EE, but it was put on hold because of technical problems."

"What?"

Zhou Buqi was slightly taken aback.

Helo is a flagship product, how can it be constrained by technical bottlenecks?
This is a big deal!

Shen Xiangyang said: "E2EE mainly refers to end-to-end encryption. Most of the information sent on the Internet is sent in plain text. If I send you a signal, it may be intercepted by a third party halfway. What is the content of the E2EE point-to-point encryption, that is, there is an exclusive key between the sender and the receiver, and no one in the world knows it, neither does the platform, and only they know it. The process of sending information Among them, the sender first encrypts, and the receiver decodes the information with the key after receiving it. Even if the third party intercepts the signal halfway, it cannot be cracked without the key.”

Zhou Buqi was a little strange, "Is this technology not unusual? It seems that someone told me... Yes, Guo Pengfei told me that at the beginning. Friends.com and Xiaonei.com used this kind of encryption when they used e-mail."

Shen Xiangyang said with a smile: "He used the public key, which is the previous technology. Now it has been upgraded, and it is end-to-end encryption."

Zhou Buqi asked, "What do you mean?"

Shen Xiangyang explained in detail: "It was indeed used in e-mail at the earliest. Especially in the United States, e-mail has legal effect and can be used as evidence in court, while chat records of instant messaging are not considered evidence. So there were many Hackers will intercept email messages, modify them, forge them, and then send them out. This will cause huge losses to many companies. End-to-end encryption appears, represented by Yahoo Mail.”

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Yahoo is very skilled in this field?"

Shen Xiangyang said: "Yes, it is very strong, and it is a representative of the industry. However, at that time, the public key system was applied, that is, Yahoo, as the platform of the mailbox, held the public key in its hand. That is to say, the customers of Yahoo Mail and the customers It is true that outsiders cannot steal the emails sent between them, but Yahoo, as a platform, can use the public key to crack the email content.”

"what?"

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised.

Shen Xiangyang said: "It's not surprising. Emails all over the world are doing this, or how to distinguish spam? The reason why the platform can distinguish which emails from users are valid emails and which emails are spam is very important. The reason is that its content can be analyzed.”

Zhou Buqi twitched his lips, "No wonder big companies have their own email addresses!"

Shen Xiangyang smiled and said: "Yes, that's the reason. Use other people's mailboxes, and they will clearly record all the content you send."

Zhou Buqi then asked: "Can new technology solve this problem?"

Shen Xiangyang said: "Indeed, this E2EE end-to-end encryption technology can make the sent message unknown to any third party except the sender and receiver, including the platform. There is no public key here, and any There are independent randomly assigned keys between two users, which can ensure that communication messages will not be stolen by routers, switches, telecom operators, platform parties, hackers, and national security departments.”

Zhou Buqi vaguely understood, "That's complicated enough!"

The previous public key system was a set of keys for all customers, just like the password wars during World War II. If you crack a set of codebooks, you can crack all the information.

This end-to-end encryption is obviously a huge technological advancement, and any two users have a set of independent keys.Even if one set of passwords is cracked, it only unlocks the information between these two people, and it is invalid for other people.

Helo now has 1.6 million users, and there is a set of keys between every two people, which requires at least 1.28 billion key sets.Even if a single user's key can decrypt the information of many different other users, at least 1.6 million key groups are needed.

It is almost impossible to crack this.

The larger the scale, the higher the technical difficulty.

However, for an instant messaging product like Helo, a similar technology is really needed to ensure that the user's privacy will not be stolen.

When making products in overseas markets, the most important thing is privacy protection.

In contrast, the country does not need it, and it is not allowed to use it.

Once this technology is applied, many criminals can use this technology to communicate secretly and use the Internet to transmit illegal information, but the national security agencies cannot implement supervision and find out in time.

For example, the riots in Paris, France, cannot be solved by various methods.

Later, an expert came up with a trick-the Internet was cut off in Paris.

That's it for now.

Those North Africans who were rioting on the streets could not be contacted through instant messaging tools, the organization collapsed, and the incident subsided.

(End of this chapter)