Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked
by kazinator on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:08PM
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Waving about "families of mathematics" when selling a product is just an attempt to bamboozle the gullible.
The number of branches of mathematics that you involve in the product doesn't mean anything.
Encrypting a message twice with different keys using exactly the same algorithm (thus the same branch of mathematics) is prima facie as effective a security increase as using some different algorithms involving different mathematics.
Most everyday crypto products rely on the results from several different areas of cryptography with different mathematics.
The number of branches of mathematics that you involve in the product doesn't mean anything.
Encrypting a message twice with different keys using exactly the same algorithm (thus the same branch of mathematics) is prima facie as effective a security increase as using some different algorithms involving different mathematics.
Most everyday crypto products rely on the results from several different areas of cryptography with different mathematics.