• Quantum cryptography is the science of exploiting quantum mechanical properties to perform cryptographic tasks. The best known example of quantum cryptography...
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  • Post-quantum cryptography (PQC), sometimes referred to as quantum-proof, quantum-safe, or quantum-resistant, is the development of cryptographic algorithms...
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  • Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization is a program and competition by NIST to update their standards to include post-quantum cryptography. It was announced...
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  • Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a secure communication method that implements a cryptographic protocol involving components of quantum mechanics. It...
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    applied quantum theory to cryptography protocols and demonstrated that quantum key distribution could enhance information security. Quantum algorithms...
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  • Relativistic quantum cryptography is a sub-field of quantum cryptography, in which in addition to exploiting the principles of quantum physics, the no-superluminal...
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    exchange, RSA (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman), ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography), and Post-quantum cryptography. Secure symmetric algorithms include the commonly used...
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    symmetric-key algorithms appear to be resistant to the threat of post-quantum cryptography. Quantum computers would exponentially increase the speed at which these...
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  • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography is a book by Simon Singh, published in 1999 by Fourth Estate and Doubleday...
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  • would all be cracked quickly with a powerful quantum computer. "The keys used in public key cryptography have some mathematical structure. For example...
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    One-time pad (category Cryptography)
    independent. Quantum cryptography and post-quantum cryptography involve studying the impact of quantum computers on information security. Quantum computers...
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  • suitable materials for quantum computer manufacturing. Majorana fermions may be a crucial missing material. Quantum cryptography devices are now available...
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  • Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) is an approach to public-key cryptography based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields. ECC...
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    Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is the field of cryptographic systems that use pairs of related keys. Each key pair consists of a...
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    Secure Communication based on Quantum Cryptography (SECOQC) is a project that aims to develop quantum cryptography (see there for further details). The...
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  • Lattice-based constructions support important standards of post-quantum cryptography. Unlike more widely used and known public-key schemes such as the...
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  • authenticated public classical channel. E91 protocol (1991) is a quantum cryptography method that uses entangled pairs of photons to generate keys for...
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    Artur Ekert (category Quantum physicists)
    professor of quantum physics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, professorial fellow in quantum physics and cryptography at Merton College...
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    common archetypes in many scientific and engineering fields, such as quantum cryptography, game theory and physics. As the use of Alice and Bob became more...
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    In cryptography, encryption (more specifically, encoding) is the process of transforming information in a way that, ideally, only authorized parties can...
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    interdisciplinary field that involves quantum mechanics, computer science, information theory, philosophy and cryptography among other fields. Its study is...
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  • Harvest now, decrypt later (category Cryptography)
    concerns about the need to urgently deploy post-quantum cryptography, even though no practical quantum attacks yet exist, as some data stored now may still...
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  • functions. It is of interest as a type of post-quantum cryptography. So far, hash-based cryptography is used to construct digital signatures schemes...
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  • if its cryptographic algorithms or parameters can be replaced with ease and is at least partly automated. The impending arrival of a quantum computer...
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    Charles H. Bennett (physicist) (category American quantum information scientists)
    quantum computation, but also in cellular automata and reversible computing. He discovered, with Gilles Brassard, the concept of quantum cryptography...
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  • Kyber (category Lattice-based cryptography)
    trapdoor function. It won the NIST competition for the first post-quantum cryptography (PQ) standard. NIST calls its standard, numbered FIPS 203, Module-Lattice-Based...
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  • In cryptography, Post-Quantum Extended Diffie–Hellman (PQXDH) is a Kyber-based post-quantum cryptography upgrade to the Diffie–Hellman key exchange. It...
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    standalone encrypted calendar app. Tuta Mail has recently integrated post-quantum cryptography features through its new protocol - TutaCrypt replacing standard...
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  • A quantum cryptographic protocol is device-independent if its security does not rely on trusting that the quantum devices used are truthful. Thus the...
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  • In cryptography, key size or key length refers to the number of bits in a key used by a cryptographic algorithm (such as a cipher). Key length defines...
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