Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

[Johan Wevers]

On 12-05-2020 3:46, Pete Stephenson via Gnupg-users wrote:

> For example, a 256 bit elliptic curve key has a similar strength to a symmetric key of 128 bits.

Until, of course, a working quantum computer with more than a few qubits
is constructed. Then ECC is much more vulnerable than RSA or ElGamal due
to its smaler keysize (of course once a 256 bit quantum computer gets
constructed I would also worry about 8192 bit RSA being vulnerable too
in the very near future).

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