ECC is not something revolution, it is an new public key algorithm but is similar to the exist ones. Cryptographically there is no known way to break ECC, RSA, DSA etc. However the main benefit of ECC is that the size of the key. If you read the NIST guidelines for key sizes and equivalence, you can see the issue with RSA/DSA and where ECC is nice. Now consider phones,etc, with limited CPU power.
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/key_management.html http://www.keylength.com/en/4/ On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 14:53, Tom Perrine <[email protected]> wrote: > I just saw this blog post by the Grumpy Troll: > http://bridge.grumpy-troll.org/2011/01/openssh.html > > I've been waiting for ECC to go "mainstream", and I guess that it's finally > (mostly?) here. > > How about you? Is ECC revolutionary, just for tinfoil hats, or no value at > all? I've put together a quick Survey Monkey survey to gauge interest in > ECC in SSH: > > http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZPVVQHN > > I'm cheap (free account), so only the first 100 responses will be counted. > I'll summarize in a week or so. > > --tep > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > -- The best compliment you could give Pythian for our service is a referral.
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