100 sats \ 1 reply \ @om 16 Jun 2023 \ parent \ on: I have been asked to ELI5 cryptographic hashes to kids (grade 8).. Is this ok? bitcoin
is critical understanding why public-private key pair cryptography works
Kinda sorta... the thing is, few use RSA anymore exactly because factoring is too easy. It's all elliptic curves nowadays which do not require any secret prime numbers.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DiracDelta 16 Jun 2023
Ah, I guess I need to take OP's course then 😂
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