Brave is notoriously dubious at best, encouraging ads and cryptocurrencies.
It doesn’t have any advantages over a hardened Firefox (and I would say even a basic one), so using it doesn’t really make sense.
Encryption is generally “open source” and that’s what makes is strong. Security does not come from people not knowing how things work, but by having properly designed things that work whether people know how they work or not.
“I am not ignorant”
That would have been the less insulting explanation.