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And that's how you get people that think that every website starting with "https" is secure and legit, even though it's trivial for malicious sites to use TLS.

Fundamental cryptographic primitives (encryption, signatures,...) don't require any advanced math to understand if you don't go into the concrete instantiations. The technical community should really try to better teach these concepts to the general public as we move further into the digital age.