Public-key cryptography

Encryption that uses a public key to encrypt or verify and a private key to decrypt or sign. RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography, the current standards, are vulnerable to Shor's algorithm.

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Quantum computing

• Crypto-agility
• Decoherence
• Dilution refrigerator
• Entanglement
• Fault-tolerant quantum computing
• Gate fidelity
• Gate-model quantum computer
• Grover's algorithm
• Hybrid quantum-classical computing
• Ising model
• Josephson junction
• Logical qubit
• NISQ
• NIST PQC standards
• Post-quantum cryptography
• qLDPC codes
• Quantum advantage
• Quantum annealing
• Quantum error correction
• Quantum gate
• Quantum key distribution
• Quantum processing unit
• Quantum volume
• Quantum-inspired algorithm
• Qubit
• Qubit modalities
• QUBO
• Randomized benchmarking
• Shor's algorithm
• Superconducting qubit
• Superposition
• Surface code
• SWAP overhead
• Tunable coupler
• Variational quantum algorithms