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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 1927 days ago
Elliptic Curve Cryptography still has an excellent theoretical security record, and will likely keep its record until the advent of quantum computers. Also, trustworthy digital signature is actually not too difficult even given the doomsday scenario - if all public-key cryptosystems are broken, as long as you still have a secure hash function, you can use Merkle signature [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_signature_scheme