Elliptic Curve Cryptograpy

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Author(s): Manuel Mogollon (University of Dallas, USA)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 28
Source title: Cryptography and Security Services: Mechanisms and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Manuel Mogollon (University of Dallas, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-837-6.ch008

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Information Security & Privacy / IT Security and Ethics / Security & Forensics

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For the same level of security that public-key cryptosystems such as RSA have, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) offers the benefit of smaller key sizes, hence smaller memory and processor requirements. The Diffie-Hellman key exchange, ElGamal encryption, digital signatures, and the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) can all be implemented in ECC. This makes ECC a very attractive algorithm for wireless devices such as handhelds and PDAs, which have limited bandwidth and processing power. Running on the same platform, ECC runs more TLS/SSL transactions per second than RSA. This chapter describes the basic concepts and definitions of elliptic curve cryptography.

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