This website might also interest you if you want to get some ideas about relative security of cryptosystems :
http://www.keylength.com/
I'm told that EC (elliptic curve) crypto with 256 bit keys may be as strong as the RSA with 16000 bit keys. Sounds incredible to me. Could someone please comment on this? Thank you in advance.
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