Re: Elliptical Curve Encryption

Paul Lambert (plambert@sprintmail.com)
Sun, 12 Jul 1998 16:50:24 -0700

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Anonymous wrote:

> .... The whole problem is
> relatively new and hasn't been studied much, so I wouldn't reccomend
> putting ECC in any "mission-critical" applications (by which I mean key
> distribution) soon.

Now, now ... you've been reading the mis-information from RSADSI's web site.
Manyof the anti-ECC quotes were not approved and are now very old. Why would
RSADSI ever support an algorithm that is not RSA?

Elliptic curve mathmatics has been around for hundreds of years. Elliptic
curve cryptography's been around since 1985. Many mission-critical
applications are now using elliptic curve technologies based on extensive
evaluation of the risks and alternatives.

Paul

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