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Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Outline. Introduction to elliptic curves Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman key agreement Elliptic curve Digital Signature Algorithm. Q=(x,-y). How do elliptic curve cryptosystems compare with other cryptosystems?.
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Outline • Introduction to elliptic curves • Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman key agreement • Elliptic curve Digital Signature Algorithm
How do elliptic curve cryptosystemscompare with other cryptosystems? • Roughly speaking, elliptic curve cryptosystems with a 160-bit key offer about the same security as RSA and discrete logarithm based systems with a 1024-bit key. As a result, the length of the public key and private key is much shorter in elliptic curve cryptosystems. • Elliptic curve cryptosystems are faster than the RSA system in signing and decryption, but slower in signature verification and encryption. • Reference: http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2245