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startswithaj on Nov 10, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: A primer on elliptic curve cryptography

Doing 256 bit sign ecdsa's for 10s: 42874 256 bit ECDSA signs in 9.99s

Doing 2048 bit private rsa's for 10s: 1864 2048 bit private RSA's in 9.99s

That's 23 times as many signatures using ECDSA as RSA.

42 874 256

18 642 048

23 times as many signatures?

sandstrom on Nov 10, 2013 [–]

I think it's 42874/1864=23. (256 and 2048 is presumably the key strength).

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