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EPISODE · Mar 17, 2021 · 3 MIN

6.4 Why are ECDSA keys smaller than RSA? || Adam Gibson

from Join the Wasabikas - a Bitcoin Privacy Podcast · host Wasabi Wallet

Adam Gibson explains why RSA is less performant than elliptic curve cryptography, because algorithms to factor prime numbers are getting more efficient, which means that the key size has to be larger too. But ECDSA is a lot more complex and difficult to understand, than RSA is.

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6.4 Why are ECDSA keys smaller than RSA? || Adam Gibson

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Adam Gibson explains why RSA is less performant than elliptic curve cryptography, because algorithms to factor prime numbers are getting more efficient, which means that the key size has to be larger too. But ECDSA is a lot more complex and...

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