Douglas Stebila

Integrating elliptic curve cryptography into the web's security infrastructure

Measured performance of elliptic curve and RSA algorithms.

Abstract

RSA is the most popular public-key cryptosystem on the web today but long-term trends such as the proliferation of smaller, simpler devices and increasing security needs will make continued reliance on RSA more challenging over time. We offer elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) as a suitable alternative and describe our integration of this technology into several key components of the web's security infrastructure. We also present experimental results quantifying the benefits of using ECC for secure web transactions.

Keywords: elliptic curve cryptography, Mozilla, Apache, OpenSSL

Reference

Vipul Gupta, Douglas Stebila, Sheueling Chang. Integrating elliptic curve cryptography into the web's security infrastructure. In Proc. 13th International World Wide Web Conference on Alternate Track Papers and Posters (WWW) 2004, pp. 402-403. ACM, May 2004. © ACM.

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BibTeX

@inproceedings{WWW:GupSteCha04,
 	Author = {Vipul Gupta and Douglas Stebila and Sheueling Chang},
 	Booktitle = {Proc. 13th International World Wide Web Conference on Alternate Track Papers and Posters (WWW) 2004},
 	Doi = {10.1145/1013367.1013496},
 	Month = {May},
 	Pages = {402--403},
 	Publisher = {ACM},
 	Title = {Integrating elliptic curve cryptography into the web's security infrastructure},
 	Year = {2004}
 }