Re: ECC vs RSA, and Similar Conflicts

fair enough

On May 10, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Wan-Teh Chang wrote:

> The ECC/RSA issue is not that difficult to resolve.  The API needs to allow both
> ECC and RSA to be relevant today, with a method for feature detection.  We
> know some browsers, such as Firefox on Red Hat Linux/Fedora and Internet
> Explorer on Windows XP, don't have built-in support of ECC.  Servers will figure
> out whether they should use RSA or ECC (or even both) depending on the target
> browsers they need to support.  So I don't think we need to resort to exposing
> the underlying big num math library, which would open a new can of worms.
> 
> Wan-Teh

Received on Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:40:08 UTC