Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast

Root Causes 635: Do We Need to Get Rid of ECC?

Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast

Show Notes

Bas Westerbaan of Cloudflare joins us to discuss recent information that heightens concerns about Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) and its vulnerability to a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC). We pose the question do we need to deprecate ECC in advance of our migration to ML-DSA and other PQC algorithms.

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