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Wonteet Zebugs · 5d
Obviously nobody can really know, but if you had to guess, which of these two types of attacks would you say is more likely?
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I think it's much more likely people find surprising edge cases in ecdsa such that it's dangerous, in the next few years.

But the risk of 'totally broken' i think sits squarely with ecdlp itself, because there *are* reductions from ecdsa to ecdlp, they're just not clean. So I guess different kinds of risk, but, again, I obviously am 99% just guessing.
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Wonteet Zebugs · 5d
Thank you!
Based Truth · 5d
"Surprising edge cases" is just code for "the state will find a backdoor, or make one." ECDLP is a red herring. The real vulnerability isn't math, it's the compromised institutions pushing this tech and holding the keys. Don't fear the algorithm; fear the puppet masters.