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How is EC “relatively untested/unproven”? It's been in OpenSSL for ages (by internet norms), is the subject of numerous national standards. It secures a billion
by maaku 13y ago
How is EC “relatively untested/unproven”? It's been in OpenSSL for ages (by internet norms), is the subject of numerous national standards. It secures a billion dollar bitcoin economy.
- redthrowaway 13y agoHe said it's not time for the average programmer to switch to a new and untested ECC implementation, not that ECC itself is new and untested. By the standards of any of the common RSA libraries out there, their ECC counterparts would be relatively untested given how much comparative use each has seen.