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Speeding up SSL: ECC 279% faster than RSA
- oakenshield 17y agoThis is from 2004. The problem with ECC is (has been, rather) that it's covered by patents, and OpenSSL didn't have ECC APIs until very recently. I believe the implementation in the latest versions of OpenSSL are based on the work of the same authors. Unfortunately, with so much deployed code using RSA-based handshakes, it seems tough for ECC to gain traction all that soon.
- codexon 17y agohttp://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2325 http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2325 Also, the lawsuit that certicom made against Sony for ECC infringement was thrown out. Here is a GPL implementation that claims to be patent free: http://point-at-infinity.org/seccure/ http://point-at-infinity.org/seccure/
- cperciva 17y agoIf your SSL handshaking is a performance-limiting step, you're doing something wrong. Yes, ECC can be faster than RSA... but it really doesn't matter for SSL.
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