POST QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY FROM MUTANT PRIME KNOTS
ANNALISA MARZUOLI, Giandomenico Palumbo · International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics · 2011
By resorting to basic features of topological knot theory we propose a (classical) cryptographic protocol based on the "difficulty" of decomposing complex knots generated as connected sums of prime knots and their mutants. The scheme combines an asymmetric public key protocol with symmetric private ones and is intrinsically secure against quantum eavesdropper attacks.