Re: [TLS] Comparative cipher suite strengths

[Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz>]

Vipul Gupta <Vipul.Gupta at sun.com> writes:

>p.s. For those unfamiliar with the performance advantages of ECC public key
>cryptography, especially at these higher key sizes, several papers are
>available at http://research.sun.com/projects/crypto.

There's also Wei Dai's benchmarks at http://www.cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html,
where are considerably less rosy.  In particular client-side RSA runs circles
around client-side ECC crypto.

Peter.