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Re:Setting up my new laptop: Nix style by stouset on Sunday December 25, 2022 @02:53AM (#34125270)
> The modern cryptographic functions we were talking about are all based on primes.

No. They aren’t. Not elliptic curves, not any hash functions, not AES, not ChaCha20c not any of the post-quantum stuff NIST is tossing about.

RSA is. That’s about it. And RSA is being rapidly phased out.

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