Quantum-resistant

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a cryptographic algorithm: unable to be easily deciphered by a quantum computer.

    "Even though most public-key cryptosystems currently in use are based on the presumed difficulty of either factoring large numbers or extracting discrete logarithms, which would not survive widespread use of laptop quantum computers, alternative quantum-resistant public-key systems are not ruled out to the best of our current knowledge."

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quantum-proofquantum-safe

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"Even though most public-key cryptosystems currently in use are based on the presumed difficulty of either factoring large numbers or extracting discrete logarithms, which would not survive widespread use of laptop quantum computers, alternative quantum-resistant public-key systems are not ruled out to the best of our current knowledge."

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