So What Does An Elliptic Curve Key Pair Look Like? PEM, DER and OpenSSH
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6 min readDec 21, 2023
Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) saved cybersecurity a whole lot of processing. Without them, we would be implementing key exchange with large prime numbers of over 2K bits. With them, our key exchanges are small, with a private key of around 256 bits and a public key of 512 bits.
