Speeding up Secure Web Transactions Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Proceedings of the Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security, NDSS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Gupta, Vipul ^a   Stebila, Douglas ^a   Fung, Stephen ^a   Shantz, Sheueling Chang ^a   Gura, Nils ^a   Eberle, Hans ^a  

^a SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; HTTP; NETWORK SECURITY; WEB SERVICES;

APACHE WEB SERVER; CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY; ELLIPTIC CURVE; FAST COMPUTATION; KEY SIZES; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; LOWER-POWER CONSUMPTION; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOSYSTEMS; SECURITY LEVEL; WEB TRANSACTIONS;

PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 85180529073     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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