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[Cfrg] A terminology issue with "post-quantum cryptography"

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@icann.org> Wed, 16 August 2017 17:55 UTC

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Greetings. I was talking with a colleague this morning about draft-hoffman-c2pq and trying to describe quantum computing for cryptanalysis, and why quantum cryptography is not part of it. Their response should give us pause about our terminology: "So post-quantum cryptography is what we get after quantum cryptography is fully developed?".

I'm not offering a solution here, but that question is quite understandable and terrible at the same time.

--Paul Hoffman

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