[zeromq-dev] CurveZMQ data encryption

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Michal Rajčan <rajcanius at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Data is encrypted with the public key (and other information) and decrypted
> with the secret key."
>
> That is the asymmetric encryption of data "problem", isn't it? Or am I
> missing something?

With ECC there is no symmetric/asymmetric choice. Or rather, it is
asymmetric with the performance characteristics of symmetric.

Read up on Curve25519 for more details.

-Pieter