Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is an approach to public-key cryptography based on the
algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields. The use of elliptic curves in
cryptography was suggested independently by Neal Koblitz and Victor S. Miller in 1985. The
principal attraction of ECC compared to RSA is that it appears to offer equal security for a far
smaller bit size, thereby reducing the processing overhead.
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