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The main benefit of EC over IF/DL based cryptosystems is that it scales much better as you move to higher security levels. Compare, for instance, the speed of
by ctz 13y ago
The main benefit of EC over IF/DL based cryptosystems is that it scales much better as you move to higher security levels.
Compare, for instance, the speed of RSA with a 15360-bit modulus and the speed of ECC over NIST-P521. These are thought to provide roughly the same security level.
- theboss 13y agoYeah but who is doing that here? For the most part, a lot of people here just need an HTTPS cert with RSA 2048. I guess I may be wrong and it might help with efficiency if you have 10,000 connections HTTPS request per second and you're working at a big company, but if you're just a tiny website with a TLS cert then I wouldn't waste my time learning about ECC if I were you.