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So... looks like it's using ES256. How long would it take to factor the private key?
by bjt2n3904 5y ago
So... looks like it's using ES256. How long would it take to factor the private key?
- koojen 5y agoA lot of time... if you're not NSA
- anderskaseorg 5y agoThe security of elliptic curve cryptography is based on discrete logarithms; there’s nothing to factor. Until we get very large quantum computers, the best known attacks are brute force searches taking about 2^128 steps for a 256-bit elliptic curve, which is far outside the realm of practical.