How to Use public-key in a Sentence

public-key

noun

• For over 40 years, public-key cryptography has secured global commerce.
  — Lane Sullivan, Forbes.com, 13 Feb. 2026
• The quantum threat to public-key cryptography is transitioning from a theoretical future to an immediate risk.
  — Adi Karisik, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
• The app’s wallet uses an open-source protocol to generate a ZKP showing that the holder’s private key is linked to a public-key hash on the blockchain, without revealing which one.
  — Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2022
• Quantum computers were on the road to defeating conventional, public-key crypto algorithms like RSA.
  — Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 9 Aug. 2019
• Entire categories of public-key cryptography will eventually require replacement with post-quantum algorithms.
  — Evgeny Gervis, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
• Google took a hybrid approach that combines a traditional public-key cryptography algorithm with Dilithium for authentication.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2023
• Many regulators and agencies are targeting migration away from classical public-key cryptography in the early 2030s.
  — Maman Ibrahim, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• If public-key cryptography becomes breakable, attackers can impersonate services, weaken the handshakes that set up secure sessions and forge signatures that make malicious code look legitimate.
  — Kumar Mehta, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• Turning Shor into hardware Shor’s algorithm has long provided the theoretical route for breaking public-key cryptography with quantum computers.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026
• That technology is also what makes security keys vulnerable to quantum attacks, because ultimately, quantum computers will break all current forms of public-key cryptography, researchers say.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2023
• Washington has restricted the export of sensitive technology before, from public-key cryptography in the 1970s to nuclear technology.
  — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 23 June 2026
• Because Dilithium is not yet an official standard and has not long been in use under real-world conditions, Google took a hybrid approach that combines a traditional public-key cryptography algorithm with Dilithium for authentication.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2023
• Rodriguez points to advances in domain name system security extensions (DNSSEC), which uses digital signatures based on public-key cryptography to strengthen the authentication of the domain name system.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2026