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Cracking Elliptic Curves with the MOV Attack

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is wiping the floor with other key exchange, signing and encryption methods. Overall it is well defined for a scale up in security, and where a 256-bit ECC key is equivalent in security to a 3,072-bit RSA key. But ECC still has one weakness: the MOV Attack, and which uses pairing-based cryptography.