Re: [saag] CFRG Presentation on Algebraic Eraser

Hi, Derek

If it indeed "performs 70-200x better than ECC in time and power consumption”, why is it appropriate only for IoT systems?  Why is it inappropriate for quad-core 3 GHz 16 GB desktop systems connecting to 32-core 3GHz 128GB servers?

Yoav

> On Mar 24, 2015, at 10:53 PM, Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday in CFRG my colleague and I are presenting the Algebraic
> Eraser, a public key crypto system targeted at embedded, low-resource, IoT
> systems that performs 70-200x better than ECC in time and power
> consumption.  If you're at all interested in seeing viable, performant
> public key crypto on extremely constrained devices I encourage you to
> attend CFRG at 1pm on Wednesday.
> 
> The abstract of the talk:
> 
> The Algebraic Eraser (AE), introduced by Anshel, Anshel, Goldfeld, and
> Lemieux in 2006, is a key agreement protocol for public-key cryptography
> which was designed to be suitable for implementation on low-cost platforms
> with constrained computational resources, such as RFID, NFC, and other
> platforms associated with the "Internet of Things."  One novel feature of
> the protocol is that its complexityscales linearly with the desired
> security, unlike other asymmetric methods such as RSA and ECC.  In this
> talk we give an overview of the protocol and present recent hardware
> timing data comparing the performance of AE with ECC.
> 
> -derek
> 
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>       derek@ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
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