ECC - how does it compare

Remco Post r.post at sara.nl
Tue Oct 30 10:21:29 CET 2007


Sven Radde wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Hardeep Singh schrieb:
>> Its a tool for public key encryption using ECC rather than
>> prime number factoring.
> AFAIK, some of the really efficient algorithms for the required math are
> patented.
> 

in that case these patents are only valid inside the US, since no EU
country accepts patents on software or mathematical algorithms.

> cu, Sven
> 
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