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New applications. New devices. Convergence. An explosive network effect. And all of it requiring more security. This phenomenon requires ever-increasing advancements in the area of cryptography to protect information from brute force attacks.

Enter Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC), a stronger, more efficient technology than RSA, which, because of its mathematical foundation, consumes far less processing cycles thereby opening up a world of new opportunities.

Vice President of Global Systems Engineering, Hal Stern, welcomes Sun Labs Distinguished Engineer, Vipul Gupta to discuss why ECC is stronger and more efficient than RSA and how it is being implemented today.

Key elements of the discussion include:

How the use of smaller keys allows for faster computations and savings on resources like memory, bandwidth and energy.

Why ECC is ideal for the next wave of computing devices - wireless sensor devices such as Sun SPOTs

Making sure your ECC implementations communicate with one another

Government agencies looking at ECC as a way of protecting public information

How a new breed of devices will act as both client and server

Mathematically speaking, why ECC is different (and better)

Applying ECC to devices

Get the lowdown on the latest in cryptography technology – listen to the podcast now.

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