As I understand it, it's computationally faster and the same key size confers much more security than RSA. That said, there are some elliptic curve skeptics ou

As I understand it, it's computationally faster and the same key size confers much more security than RSA. That said, there are some elliptic curve skeptics out there that think the NSA has cooked certain curves or may have techniques we don't know about and that's why they've been pushing it so hard. The latter being less likely than the former. Don't use the NIST curves.