Elliptic Curve Cryptography

HardKor hardkor.info at gmail.com
Mon Aug 13 15:29:02 CEST 2012


HI Sam,

You can already use Elipric Curve Crypto wiith X.509 cryptosystems
(TLS/SSL). It's faster than RSA and use slamer keys so it make you save
bandwidth and CPU load. Try "openssl speed" to get benchmarks of the
diffrent algorithms and see by yourself.

HardKor

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On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Sam Smith <smickson at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I read recently about Elliptic Curve Cryptography and how it provides much
> stronger security with much smaller public key sizes.
>
> Does anybody know if Public Key Crypto has any plans to move to this with
> an update to the standard?
>
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