Sun Microsystems Laboratories gives elliptic curve cryptography to OpenSSL
[Posted September 18, 2002 by dave]
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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