Seminar, 12th October 1999

Speaker:

Nigel Smart, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Date:

12th October at 3.00 pm

Place:

Microsoft Research Ltd, St George House, 1 Guildhall Street, Cambridge.
Doors will be open between 2.45pm and 3.15pm

Title:

ELLIPTIC CURVES IN CRYPTOGRAPHY

In the past few years elliptic curve cryptography has moved from a fringe activity to a major challenger to the dominant RSA/DSA systems. Elliptic curves offer major advances on older systems such as increased speed, less memory and smaller key sizes. As digital signatures become more and more important in the commercial world the use of elliptic curve-based signatures will become all pervasive.

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