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Somebody should describe what ECC mathematically is in details. Better link to GPL'd ECC code should be added. Currently it points to quite big package. Taw

From an earlier revision of the article:

For comparison, in 2001 some experts are suggesting these sizes for various public key systems for a security level appropriate to major business transactions that require secrecy:

RSA (based on difficulty of factorisation) 1024 bits.

DSA (based on difficulty of discrete log for integers modulo a prime) 1024 bits.

ECC (based on difficulty of discrete log for discrete ECC system) 200 bits.

I have removed this until it can be backed up firmly by a cite - instead, I have added external links to research papers in this field. -- The Anome

I refer you to What Wikipedia is not, item 9, and Most common Wikipedia faux pas "Deleting useful content". You have deleted some useful inline information and replaced it with external links. Bad idea. If you actually know anything about this subject and don't like my numbers, then change them, they are fairly fuzzy and there is no recognized reliable method for generating them. But don't delete them. You didn't even give a reason for deleting them. It is NOT necessary to give a cite for every single factlet on the whole of Wikipedia, and lack of a cite is NOT a good reason to delete content. I'll be back in a few days to revert the edit and maybe add some more discussion. -- Geronimo Jones

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