Speeding up SSL: ECC 279% faster than RSA

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.98.778

by codexon • 16 years ago

2 3 16 years ago

citeseerx.ist.psu.edu

This is from 2004.

The problem with ECC is (has been, rather) that it's covered by patents, and OpenSSL didn't have ECC APIs until very recently. I believe the implementation in the latest versions of OpenSSL are based on the work of the same authors. Unfortunately, with so much deployed code using RSA-based handshakes, it seems tough for ECC to gain traction all that soon.

codexon• 16 years ago

http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2325

Also, the lawsuit that certicom made against Sony for ECC infringement was thrown out.

Here is a GPL implementation that claims to be patent free:

http://point-at-infinity.org/seccure/

cperciva• 16 years ago

If your SSL handshaking is a performance-limiting step, you're doing something wrong. Yes, ECC can be faster than RSA... but it really doesn't matter for SSL.

Speeding up SSL: ECC 279% faster than RSA

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