Performance evaluation of RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptography

RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) are the most common public cryptographic algorithms for encryption of symmetric keys which are used in https protocol and for digital signatures. The beauty of using ECC instead of using RSA is that machines which make use of ECC are likely to consume less system resources thereby ameliorating the performance of the machines. In this paper, we experimentally evaluate the performance of RSA and ECC.