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“Classical cryptography” used to refer to historical ciphers, Vigenère and the like, tapering off after the World War 2-era cipher machines and definitely not u
by rgovostes 2y ago
“Classical cryptography” used to refer to historical ciphers, Vigenère and the like, tapering off after the World War 2-era cipher machines and definitely not used to describe asymmetric algorithms. There should be a different term for pre- (non-?) quantum cryptography from the modern era. We already suffered the redefinition of “crypto”.
- dlubarov 2y agoIt's a reasonable point but this would probably be a losing battle; at this point terms like "classical security", "classical adversaries", etc. are common in the literature. To me what's worse is "zk" used to describe applications of verifiable computation with no secrets involved, but that seems like a losing battle also.