AW: Reasons to include ECC to our charter

"Dominikus Scherkl" <Dominikus.Scherkl@biodata.com> Wed, 05 September 2001 10:33 UTC

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> ECC does *not* affect the speed of large file encryption.
Agreed. But that's not the point.
The most convincing argument for including ECC (to me) is
having another alternative, an algorithm depending on a
completely different problem, independent to integer
factorization and discrete logarithms.
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Dominikus Scherkl
Biodata Application Security AG
mail: Dominikus.Scherkl@Biodata.com