Paper 2024/608
The Practical Advantage of RSA over ECC and Pairings
Abstract
The coexistence of RSA and elliptic curve cryptosystem (ECC) had continued over forty years. It is well-known that ECC has the advantage of shorter key than RSA, which often leads a newcomer to assume that ECC runs faster. In this report, we generate the Mathematica codes for RSA-2048 and ECC-256, which visually show that RSA-2048 runs three times faster than ECC-256. It is also estimated that RSA-2048 runs 48,000 times faster than Weil pairing with 2 embedding degree and a fixed point.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Implementation
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- Keywords
- RSAECCWeil pairingembedding degree
- Contact author(s)
- liulh @ shmtu edu cn
- History
- 2024-04-22: approved
- 2024-04-20: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2024/608
- License
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CC0
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2024/608,
author = {Zhengjun Cao and Lihua Liu},
title = {The Practical Advantage of {RSA} over {ECC} and Pairings},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2024/608},
year = {2024},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/608}
}
