Re:Stop using RSA (2019)
by mcstafford on Sunday November 08, 2020 @12:36AM
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The section entitled "So what should you use instead?" doesn't make a suggestion of what to use instead...
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> Trail of Bits recommends using Curve25519 for key exchange and digital signatures... it is implemented in libsodium, which has easy-to-read documentation and is available for most languages.
You use ECDH to establish keys for sessions or files. You use ECDSA and ECC-Schnorr stuff like Ed25519 to sign things. That covers 99.9% of what RSA is used for. HTH.
Re:Stop using RSA (2019)
by timothy-quinn on Sunday November 08, 2020 @12:39AM
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This is how most critical articles of crypto end. They criticise the algorithm or system, and then don't offer much in the way of solutions.
They _do_ suggest using ECC, but in practice ECC support is super sporadic, and a lot of products charge extra for it.