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		yk on Sept 2, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The NSA's crypto "breakthrough" Yes, I should have read the wiki link. However my point was, that Suite B is so generic that we can not really speculate why the NSA did recommend this set of algos and not something else.

twotwotwo on Sept 2, 2013 [–]

They've written up a case for ECC. More elsewhere in the comments, but a key point is "RSA's really slow if you want 2^256 security": http://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/elliptic_curve.shtml

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