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Chapter 373: The Completely Collapsed Command System

On December 12, Guam.

The USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier has completed its final renovation and is slowly sailing out of the port and about to rush to its battlefield.

All the crew members on the aircraft carrier were nervously doing their work because they knew that this departure was different from any previous one. What greeted them was probably the largest and most intense conflict since the 21st century.

However, unlike the mood of ordinary combatants, the atmosphere in the command room of this aircraft carrier seemed a bit strange.

"...Are you sure our goal this time is Aozhou? What are we going there? Didn't the early information tell us to go to the Western Pacific?"

The person who spoke was the commander-in-chief of the United Fleet. His face was full of confusion, because the instructions he received were so strange.

Go to a certain waters in Aozhou, close all contact channels, and keep communication silently on standby.

What is this to do?

Even with his decades of command and combat experience, he could not understand what strategic significance such a dispatch would bring.

"Theoretically, Aozhou is also in the Western Pacific, but I really didn't understand this order... I have confirmed it to my superiors through the joint command system, and the instructions I received are still the same."

Captain Roosevelt replied helplessly.

He also had some incomprehension of the instructions, but he could not show any abnormality of disobeying the order in front of his superiors, which made him feel a little painful.

Hearing his words, the commander-in-chief of the fleet frowned tightly and then spoke:

"I cannot accept such an order--this is obviously a wrong order. I need to call the commander-in-chief myself. I will never execute it unless I get his personal confirmation!"

"My suggestion is the same. Just call and call now!"

The commander-in-chief nodded slightly, he picked up the phone, and then, two minutes later, he learned a message that shocked him almost a little scared.

As he expected, the combat command issued through the joint command system was not to go to Aozhou at all, but to the Western Pacific.

Moreover, the content of the confirmation message they issued through the command system was also tampered with, and the confirmation received by the other party was also "going to the Western Pacific"!

With such double-ended tampering, an incorrect command will be fully implemented. If it weren't for this phone call, the sender and receiver of the command will still be kept in the dark!

What the hell is going on?

The commander-in-chief looked at each other, and an extremely terrible guess surged into their hearts at the same time.

Our own combat command system has been completely infiltrated.

Moreover, the other party even has the private key of his own command and publishes tampered information through the private key!

To achieve such a result, there are only two possible ways to:

First, our army intelligence system has been physically conquered, and the key person who holds the private key is the other party's spy.

The possibility of such a thing happening is extremely low. To explain it in the most appropriate case, it is like Captain America is actually Hydra's undercover agent in S.H.E.L.D.

It's simply impossible.

But if this is not the case, then the situation they face may be even more dangerous, because...

The other party is likely to have mastered some kind of RSA decryption technology and has implanted a Trojan program, which fundamentally destroys the encryption method on which one party relies for survival!

This guess is even more terrifying than the first one, because if this is true, then paralysis is far more than just the command system.

In addition to the nuclear and strategic weapons with the highest level of physical isolation, their enemies can mobilize all their combat units without any obstacles. Even if they send a signal, they can let the weapon systems that have been automatically designed to empty all the permanent ammunition!

From missile strike targets, to combat unit positions, to data link systems, to satellite reconnaissance systems... almost every link will be significantly affected.

Yes, we can indeed disconnect the data link and issue combat commands purely on radios that cannot be distorted and interfered. However, such combat methods will immediately reduce the efficiency and combat effectiveness of strikes rapidly, and this decline is fatal in a modern war!

Just imagine, the other party's data link system shares all the target information within a few microseconds, while the one side has to pass it on radio one by one... Such speed differences will completely change the pattern of a war.

Do you still need to fight?

This question appeared in the minds of the fleet commander and captain, but before they could come to a conclusion, they received new instructions:

Return to Guam base and standby.

This time, the command was not distorted.

.........

At the same time, the entire joint command of the Chou Kingdom military has become a mess.

This once claimed to be the most advanced military command on the entire planet, but now it can only rely on the most traditional telephone communication system for intelligence sharing and information confirmation.

Each combat unit constantly feedbacks command information errors and data link system abnormalities, and the aggregated information makes everyone in this command center feel like they are falling into an ice cave.

Three of the six major aircraft carrier formations were set up incorrect assembly locations. The army received ultra-long-distance maneuvering commands for no reason. Several military airport civil warplanes took off and landed urgently. The air defense missile's enemy-to-week identification system collapsed, and almost killed the planes under training...

In a small conference room, the highest decision-making levels in the country's military field have gathered together. Faced with this unprecedented situation, their expressions are even more serious than when they were threatened by nuclear weapons in the first place.

"...The situation is clear, this is the Trojan virus invasion, but the problem is that our encryption design is not afraid of Trojan viruses at all."

"They can intercept our information and intercept our combat instructions, but they can't rely on the public key of the combat instructions to decrypt our information, so as to decrypt our information."

"We use 512-bit RSA encryption. According to experts' opinions, there is no technology on this planet that can crack this encryption, and even computers with the highest computing power cannot do it."

"Not to mention that this cracking is not a single instruction cracking, but a large-scale, full-chain cracking...incredible."

The person speaking was a senior commander. Before that, he had received more than fifty calls, all of which were directly checking the accuracy of command information to him, which made him feel a little unbearable. As a last resort, he issued an order to stop all military activities through the Joint Command.

The dramatic thing is that the command transmitted synchronously through the radio and joint command system was not distorted at all, which also made them more sure that the distortion of the previous command was not a problem with our own system or personnel, but someone had interfered with it.

"Nothing incredible, Ron, you know in your heart what's going on, but you just don't dare to admit it."

"Obviously, this is RSA decryption. The other party has mastered this technology---we have mastered this technology before!"

"Not only in the military field, our logistics procurement has also been greatly affected. I just received the news that our army has issued a po to suppliers for purchasing hundreds of thousands of individual sights. We don't need these individual sights at all. The content of this po itself is to purchase individual medical kits!"

"If it weren't for paper confirmation, maybe this contract has been executed, but even if it's just that, we've been greatly affected."

"The banking and financial sectors have not been attacked yet, but I have no doubt that if it is really necessary, they will directly change the deposit numbers of all our banks to 0!"

"What should we do by that time? This is not a simple financial problem. If our people find that all the money in their accounts disappears, they will immediately jump up and rebel!"

"The situation in the country is tense enough now, and we absolutely cannot afford such an impact."

After listening to the other party's explanation, Ron was silent for a few seconds, and then asked:

"Terry, don't always look arrogant. What is your opinion? Give up? I have ordered the cessation of military operations, how can I admit defeat?"

"The point is not to admit defeat... the point is that we have to figure out what the other party wants first."

Terry sighed deeply and then continued:

"I don't want this either, but Ron, RSA decryption technology is a technology that is more deterrent than nuclear weapons. You know, we have been competing with our opponents for nearly twenty years in this regard, and now the situation is that they have achieved it first."

"Since that's the case, we have no other choice."

"Think about it yourself, what was our strategy when we were the only ones in the world who had nuclear weapons?"

"Now, we're switching between their locations, they have RSA decryption, and we don't."

"And if we want to escape the influence of RSA decryption, we must update the algorithm - update it to quantum algorithm! But what is the most terrible thing? Their RSA decryption technology basis is quantum computing!"

"Even if we update the quantum encryption algorithm, they still have a high chance of deciphering... Forget it, this is not something you and I can decide."

"Don't waste time anymore, just report it to the upper level. We need a comprehensive discussion. Before the discussion results appear, all military operations must be stopped!"

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