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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Tomek Lutelmowski wrote: |
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> After looking at the ssh documentation I couldn't find support for ECC |
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> (Elliptic Curve Cryptography). Doing a web-based search also showed no |
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> modules that can be incorporated into ssh. Are there any current versions of |
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> ssh, or projects involving ECC for SSH? ECC not only offers more crypto |
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> strength in a smaller key length than RSA, but is regarded as being faster |
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> and requiring less processing power. The added bonus is that ECC technology |
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> is available free of charge, so could it be possible there are no |
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> implementation or patches for OpenSSH? |
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For what's it worth I usually have my big scp copies use blowfish |
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as the default cipher. It tends to be faster especially on busy systems. |
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The reason you don't see much with ECC is the idea is relatively new, |
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1985, in cryptography, while most OpenSSH support ciphers are the much |
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older and better understood block ciphers. |
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ECC is also not free unless I'm misreading something. |
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http://www.certicom.com/index.php?action=ip,overview |
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kashani |