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Sun Microsystems Laboratories gives elliptic curve cryptography to OpenSSL

A press release from Sun Microsystems announces their recent contributions to the OpenSSL project. "Sun has contributed an Elliptic Curve cryptography code implementation to the OpenSSL (Secure Socket Layer) project. Elliptic Curve cryptography is an emerging public-key cryptosystem which provides the same degree of security as those used in SSL today with approximately one-eighth the key size. This makes the technology especially useful for mobile devices and other small devices that are limited in the power, CPU performance, memory, or bandwidth."
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Sun Microsystems Laboratories gives elliptic curve cryptography to OpenSSL

Posted Sep 18, 2002 22:46 UTC (Wed) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]

I haven't heard if Elliptic Curve Cryptography before.
Can anyone point me to a simple (as possible..) description of how it works?

Sun Microsystems Laboratories gives elliptic curve cryptography to OpenSSL

Posted Sep 19, 2002 5:09 UTC (Thu) by nraynaud (guest, #532) [Link]

here is a good tutorial :
http://www.certicom.com/research/online.html

Sun Microsystems Laboratories gives elliptic curve cryptography to OpenSSL

Posted Oct 1, 2002 0:38 UTC (Tue) by dananderson (guest, #905) [Link]

Here's a FAQ about the algorithm, including clarification about license issues:
http://research.sun.com/projects/crypto/FrequenlyAskedQuestions.html

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