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Glossary: Cryptography and PKI

ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography)

Also written: Elliptic Curve Cryptography, elliptic curve

The modern public-key family, based on points on an elliptic curve. It gives the same strength as RSA with much shorter keys: a P-256 key matches RSA-3072.

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Related terms

RSAP-256Ed25519Asymmetric encryption