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EC equivalent for RSA-OAEP
I have some questions regarding aforementioned subject:
Is there a EC equivalent of RSA-OAEP key transport/encryption algorithm ?
Is ECIES-KEM sufficient ?
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What does SSL use? RSA? El-Gamal? Elliptic curves?
I'm not sure what SSL uses to share the symmetric key to both end users, i.e. at the beginning of the communication. Is it RSA? Or El-Gamal? Or something else?
Thanks!
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Why is elliptic curve cryptography not widely used, compared to RSA?
I recently ran across elliptic curve crypto-systems:
An Introduction to the Theory of Elliptic Curves (Brown University)
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (Wikipedia)
Performance analysis of identity ...
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Are any of the major asymmetric ciphers distinguishable (EG, RSA, ECC) ?
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Given ciphertexts generated by any of the major asymmetric ciphers (RSA, ElGamal, ECC, etc..) can these ciphertexts be distinguished from random noise? Justify why, why ...
