Setting the Record Straight on ECC
Recent articles appearing in The New York Times, Der Speigel, Canada’s The Globe and Mail, Britain’s The Guardian and a host of other media have suggested that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has successfully unraveled encryption standards and implementations, allowing the Agency to eavesdrop on internet communications. However, analysis by cooler heads suggests that strong encryption algorithms are not broken; rather, that the NSA may be taking advantage of known weakness in software and hardware that employ weak encryption methods.
