Standard ECC Curves and Keys

Breaking ECC keys presents a new challenge: How do you compare the difficulty of keys and curves in an objective and sensible way? In factoring, the solution is to factor bigger numbers, assuming a few conditions are followed.

We've generated a set of curves and keys ranging from 3 - 21 bits in length. These will be used to judge and compare submissions to the competition. Each submission should use one of the standard curves and keys below to demonstrate that it can successfully decrypt an ECC key. We'll use the length of chosen demonstration key(s) as the measure of a submission's success, i.e. breaking the 5-bit standard key qualifies your submission as successful up to and including 5-bit keys.

Click here for a plaintext version of the curves and keys.

Click here for a JSON version of the curves and keys.

These curves were generated according to this script.

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