I’ve conducted several more searches over my topic. I feel like I’ve seen a majority of the sources available through the university research databases, but these should find any other valuable ones I’ve overlooked.
1st Search
- Database: Applied Science & Technology Full-Text
- Query: Quantum AND Encryption AND Cryptography
- Limiter: 1998 – 2021, Peer reviewed articles and full text
- Results: 11
2nd Search
- Database: Applied Science & Technology Full-Text
- Query: RSA AND Encryption AND Quantum
- Limiter: 2000 – 2017 (2017 was the last article found), Peer reviewed articles and full
- Results: 1
3rd Search
- Database: Applied Science & Technology Full-Text
- Query: Diffie Hellman AND Quantum
- Limiter: 1998 – 2021, Peer reviewed articles and full text
- Results: 0
4th Search
- Database: Computer Science Collection
- Query: Quantum AND Encryption AND RSA
- Limiter: 1998 – 2021, Peer reviewed articles and full text
- Results: 65
5th Search
- Database: Computer Science Collection
- Query: Diffie Hellman AND Quantum
- Limiter: 1998 – 2021, Peer reviewed articles and full text
- Results: 36
For this search I mainly focused on Applied Science & Technology and Computer Science Collection. In the past I found that most of my sources have come from here and I figured I would do some more searches to see if I’ve missed anything. I mainly stuck to some pretty basic boolean searches and narrowed down the number of sources pretty well.
What I’ve been finding is I’m seeing many of the same sources over and over again. Occasionally I’ll find one that I missed before that seems useful but it’s a bit more uncommon now. At this point I’m confident that I’m hitting saturation.
Another thing I’m finding is there really isn’t as much written about this topic in these databases as I thought there would be. As I’ve been reading other blog posts I’ve noticed others are finding significantly more results, but that’s part of researching technology on the cutting edge.