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15 years in crypto is still pretty new when you compare it against things like DES, RC4, etc.On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 04:13:10PM -0400, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
I think it's simply the first finding against EC. EC is new enough that it's taken this long for someone to find out a way to crack small key length - though it's also been around long enough to show that it was HARD to find that hole.
ECC is 15 years old. The mathematics of DLP on elliptic curves vs. finite fields (for example. ECC vs. DH/ElGamal) has an extremely long history.
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