Koblitz and Miller Built The Foundation of Security For Our Internet
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9 min readJan 12, 2021
Your online security depends fundamentally on a beautiful little curve: an elliptic curve. It has been a savour of Cybersecurity in the face of ever-increasing key sizes for RSA, and weaknesses in discrete logarithms (as used in the Diffie-Hellman key exchange method). With RSA, we are moving to 2,048-bit key sizes, but with elliptic curve methods, our private key sizes…