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privatelypublic 6 days ago

Hasn't classical already severely crippled ECC because of some mathematical Assumptions that somebody came back in 2022 and Proved were wrong?

cwmma 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

I believe you are thinking of "Supersingular isogeny Diffie–Hellman key exchange" or SIKE which is a post quantum encryption algorithm that was spectacularly broken a couple years ago. The math involves elliptical curves but it's different from the elliptical curve cryptography used in your browser.

kevindamm 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Which assumptions? ECDLP is still considered computationally hard, and ECC considered secure. There are invalid curve attacks and small subgroup attacks but that's a problem with key selection, not a fundamental problem with ECC.

Do you have a citation?

markusde 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Could you link to any more information about this?

bitexploder 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Not in general, no. It is still secure and used. There are of course attacks but those were not completely breaking