The ENIGMA of Modern Cryptography

Modern cryptography in general, and asymmetric cryptography in particular derive their efficacy from the hopeful assumption that our adversary shares our mathematical insight. And hence, if it would take us a long time to crack these ciphers, it will also take our adversary such long time. Alas, a smarter attacker will compromise those ciphers faster. All our digital signatures, certification, verification, authentication as well digital money like Bitcoin are on the line. We can do something about it, but we don't because we largely ignore this threat.