Re: Breaking RSA & Securing RSA

From: Mike Amling (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 07/07/05 

Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 23:27:16 GMT

Sebastian Gottschalk wrote:
> - RSA over ECC can use smaller key sizes, as factoring over ECC is way
> harder.

   RSA over ECC? What's that? You choose the group order to be the
product of two secret primes?

--Mike Amling

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