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Not really, there's a bunch of groups around the world that work on breaking elliptic curve crypto. It takes only a few years of mathematical training.
by Ar-Curunir 10y ago
Not really, there's a bunch of groups around the world that work on breaking elliptic curve crypto.
It takes only a few years of mathematical training.
- tptacek 10y agoSeriously. It takes something like seven years, not counting undergraduate studies, to become a practicing physician. And once you achieve that, you can still only handle one physician's worth of case load. It takes far less time to learn enough math to become dangerous to a particular subfield of cryptography --- and once you achieve that, you have a decent shot at changing the state of the art for the entire world. I'm not seeing the legitimate concern here.