This primer provides a gentle yet thorough introduction to elliptical key cryptography (ECC), said to be ideal for resource-constrained embedded Linux systems because it provides more “security per bit” than other types of asymmetric cryptography. The paper is from Certicom, which markets Security Builder toolkits to embedded Linux developers.

Find out all about ECC by reading the complete whitepaper, which also explains symmetric and asymmetric key approaches, and the basic math behind RSA and Diffie-Hellman algorithms.

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