1. My initial research idea, and my current idea
Initially I wasn’t sure what I specifically wanted to research, I just knew that it would be something about the future. After developing, researching and ultimately eliminating many ideas I decided that I wanted to research the future of cryptography. As digital threats get more and more advanced, security must increase to match. This is an area that’s going to become more and more important in the coming decades, with a lot of changes.
2. What did you want to find out in your research area?
I wanted to find out more about post quantum encryption, there are a ton of competing algorithms, many of which will be standardized. Finding out more about these, their benefits or drawbacks, and how they may be used will be helpful in a future career.
3. Have you already found research related to your idea? If so, what is that research?
There’s a ton of research available on this subject, since the mid 1990s the threat of quantum computers breaking existing algorithms has been right around the corner. Thousands of studies have been conducted by public, private and government institution. One such study is
NEJATOLLAHI, H., DUTT, N., RAY, S., REGAZZONI, F., BANERJEE, I., & CAMMAROTA, R. (2018). Post-Quantum Lattice-Based Cryptography Implementations: A Survey. ACM Computing Surveys, 51(6), 1–41. https://doi.org/10.1145/3292548
which looks into implementation of lattice based cryptography.
the NIST could also be included, they are accepting submissions of algorithms, which contains information about them.
https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography
4. Database choices
I’ve chosen these since they have a wide variety of computer related content, encryption among them. The Computer Science Collection one has content dating back to the 1980s, so it will be useful for historical developments, in addition to the focus on modern developments.
(I think I’ve linked these properly so they open a new session)
Applied Science & Technology Full-Text
Computer Source
Computer Science Collection
I think your choice of topic makes perfect sense and could possibly provide some very useful insight to some solutions. I find your choice of research databases to be same ones, for the most part, that I chose for my topic. Perhaps you may find it different for your topic, but I found the Computer Source database to be an excellent source of material for our topics.
Hi Benjamin!
I really look forward to learning more about the topic you chose. It is an area that I have no familiarity with but the more you post about it, the more interesting it sounds. Unfortunately because I have no familiarity, I don’t think I can make any great suggestions that would help you with your research.
I think the databases you chose make the most sense for your topic. It looks like there are really only four to choose from in the Computer Science subject and you chose the best three. I am using Computer Source in my research as well. So far, it has been the best one in that subject for me as well.
Benjamin, it is so great that there are so many researchers related to your topic, and I am sure if you keep looking in the right places, you will find more posts about quantum encryption. You also choose a good database for your specific topic as you mentioned in your post having content that dates back to the 1980s will for sure be useful to explain the story about your topic for new commers to the subject. Excellent post!