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Bitcoin is based on ECDSA. Does anyone know of cryptocurrencies based on RSA for authentication?
Elliot Gorokhovsky
Posted 2015-12-03T05:40:53.477
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3Why? An RSA public key + signature for the same security level as 256-bit ECDSA would be almost 10 times as large, and slower to verify. – Pieter Wuille – 2015-12-03T13:25:15.623
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3Why? An RSA public key + signature for the same security level as 256-bit ECDSA would be almost 10 times as large, and slower to verify. – Pieter Wuille – 2015-12-03T13:25:15.623