Does OpenSSL use ECC?

2005-03-12 Thread John Ridge Cook
To All- Recent announcements from NSA point to them moving to Elliptical Curve Cryptography for public key encryption. --- MISSISSAUGA, ON, March 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), a strong, efficient public key cryptosystem, will soon become the s

Re: Minimum RSA Key length ?

2003-06-06 Thread John Ridge Cook
Dear John- I have used >1024 certs on my test 2k server for SSL connections to a browser, no problem. Encryption confirmed with a pacekt sniffer. As PK encryption is a hybrid, the use of resource intensive Asymmetric encryption (RSA or DH public key) is reserved for securely exchanging the 128