"Post-" is a really confusing concept that we can just leave out when we don't know what we're talking about, right? Post-modernism = modernism. Post-war Europe = war Europe. Post-meridiem = meridiem/...
@nprofile1q... I agree that "post quantum" is not a good name, like one of the synonyms from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography better: quantum-resistant.
(I like quantum-safe and quantum-proof less, because no algorithms can ever be fully safe against a certain kind of attack). But they're all better than "post-quantum", which doesn't tell you what it is (a classical algorithm that is safer against attacks by quantum algorithms), and uses up any future technologies that may come after quantum.
Quantum cryptography would be ambiguous , because then what would you call cryptography that runs on a quantum computer?
(I like quantum-safe and quantum-proof less, because no algorithms can ever be fully safe against a certain kind of attack). But they're all better than "post-quantum", which doesn't tell you what it is (a classical algorithm that is safer against attacks by quantum algorithms), and uses up any future technologies that may come after quantum.
Quantum cryptography would be ambiguous , because then what would you call cryptography that runs on a quantum computer?