Is Diffie-Hellman needed?

[justina colmena ~biz]

I want better explanations of the maths.

If RSA and DSA algorithms based on standard arithmetic exponentiation modulo the product of two large primes are "deprecated" -- that means that there have been or are expected to be major mathematical and algorithmic advances in factoring large integers. The maths are easy for those algorithms, whereas the ECC algorithms are based on very advanced maths which aren't being explained satisfactorily to the general public, with $1,000,000 USD prizes still out for the so-called Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture and the Riemann Hypothesis, which might be more applicable to factoring the "semi-primes" of RSA/DSA/DH type algorithms.

On January 10, 2022 7:12:40 AM AKST, dovecot at ptld.com wrote:
>And follow up question;
>
>The docs say you are encouraged to disable non-ECC DH algorithms completely.
>However i didn't see anything on that same page explaining how to go about doing that.
>
>Can someone point me to something explaining what that means and how to go about doing it?

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