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Closely related to the fact it's patent encumbered, there's very little (relatively) work going into the practical side of ECC because the mess of patent surrou
by ig1 16y ago
Closely related to the fact it's patent encumbered, there's very little (relatively) work going into the practical side of ECC because the mess of patent surrounding the area.
- briansmith 16y agoAlmost everybody I know of that is doing real-world cryptography is using or preparing to use ECC. In one or two years I think the typical computer user will be using ECC very frequently. The ECC patents are pretty easy to work around. One very conservative approach is: don't use ECMQV, don't use point compression, only use the Suite B curves, and use Sun's ECC contribution to OpenSSL (as it was created with the benefit of Sun's legal department and probably also reviewed by several other companies), and review the math algorithms used to make sure they were all published before 1994.
- kierank 16y agoWindows Media DRM uses ECC.