Key length and PK algorithm of TOR

[andrew at torproject.org]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 09:21:53PM +0100, canconsulting at web.de wrote 0.6K bytes in 20 lines about:
: 1) is there a specific reason why TOR does use RSA with
: a keylength of only 1024 Bit?

Start here, http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/Dec-2010/msg00012.html.

: 2) is there a specific reason why TOR does not use ECC,
: which is more secure (with reasonable curve parameters and same
: key length like RSA) *and* uses less or, depending on the
: ECC algorithm, at least not significantly more CPU cycles than RSA?

A quick answer is most ECC implementations we may want use are patent
encumbered.  However, Nick or Roger will have a better answer.

-- 
Andrew
pgp key: 0x74ED336B
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