i'm not supposed to say this, but my above paranoia is but a coping mechanism to deal with the harsh truth that I just cannot for the life of me completely understand any of those ideas no matter how well they're explained
It would make for a good sci fi novel, but yeah. Cryptography is cutthroat in the sense that if you’re even a little imprecise people can and will break your scheme. At some level of development the material will just filter out people from learning it.