Re: ssl-enum-ciphers question

nnposter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nmap.devel
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On 4/5/17 4:22 PM, Robin Wood wrote:
> Thanks, that makes sense in terms of what the message means, now I need
> to do some reading on ECC to understand the differences between it and
> RSA. Got any good references for beginner level docs?

The effective strength of ECC keys is roughly half of their size, so a
linear relationship, unlike RSA, DSA, DH, El-Gamal, etc.

Take a look at the bottom of page 64 of NIST SP 800-57 Part 1, Rev 3:

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-57/sp800-57_part1_rev3_general.pdf

Cheers,
nnposter
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