[zeromq-dev] CURVE security on master

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Ondrej Kupka <ondra.cap at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is really great, thank you!

It's been fun. The nice thing is how simple it all turns out to be. A
huge thanks to Daniel J. Bernstein[1] for making it so.

For what it's worth, the 256-bit elliptic curve cryptography key that
we use (via libsodium and NaCl) is equivalent to a 3072-bit RSA key.

If you want to learn more, try:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography
  http://curvecp.org
  http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/elliptic-curve-cryptography?page=0,0

-Pieter

[1] http://cr.yp.to/djb.html