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RFC 6637: Algorithm-Specific Fields for ECDH
I am trying to integrate RFC 6637 into Bouncy Castle C# which is more challenging as initially thought because both private key and public key have to be present to calculate the share secret: that ...
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ECC in (Open)PGP
How is with the support for ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) in (Open)PGP so far? It seems that GnuPG (The GNU Privacy Guard) doesn't have an official implementation - but I did find the gnupg-ecc ...
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Why is ECC more vulnerable than RSA in a post-quantum world?
Forgive me if this should be in the crypto sub, but sometimes the answers there are very mathematical and I would rather have an answer which is a bit lighter on the math but still strong on the tech ...
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What elliptic curves are supported by browsers?
Wireshark'ed Firefox 3 request. Their names are nowhere documented.
Elliptic curve: secp256r1 (0x0017)
Elliptic curve: secp384r1 (0x0018)
Elliptic curve: secp521r1 (0x0019)
What are the supported ...
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Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography
I am wondering if ECC could be used the way that the data is encrypted with the public key instead of the random generated key.
Is there any advantage doing that comparing to the "traditional" way of ...
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What is ECDHE-RSA?
What is the difference between ECDHE-RSA and DHE-RSA?
I know that DHE-RSA is (in one sentence) Diffie Hellman signed using RSA keys. Where DH is used for forward secrecy and RSA guards against MITM, ...
