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Comment by bohrbohra

5 hours ago

Wait what ? Does nobody use RSA anymore ?

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SAI_Peregrinus  3 minutes ago

ECC allows greater security for key exchange (because it is so cheap to generate keys we can have "ephemeral" exchanges and forward-secrecy). It isn't significantly better for signatures in most cases.

pferde  4 hours ago

Yes, last night we all voted and decided to move to its successor RSB instead.

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