[43991] in Cypherpunks
Re: Elliptic curves, current status?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Norman Hardy)
Mon Nov 27 12:12:35 1995
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 08:50:17 -0800
To: Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com>
From: norm@netcom.com (Norman Hardy)
Cc: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
At 9:48 PM 11/26/95, Wei Dai wrote:
....
>The IEEE p1363 group's working draft on elliptic curve standard may help
>you here. You can find it at ftp://ftp.rsa.com/pub/p1363/draft/ec.ps
>
>One reason for confusion about the speed of elliptic curve cryptosystems is
>the small number of implementations. A paper in Crypto 95 claimed that
>for doing key exchange, an elliptic curve algorithm takes about the same
>time and has about the same level of security as DH with 512 bit modulus,
>and that elliptic curve has a speed advantage if greater security is
>desired.
>
>Wei Dai
Thanks much! I will look at the paper.
