Tag: Disadvantage

DNS

  DNS (Domain Name System/Servers) is merely an address book for the Internet, which keeps a list of all available IP addresses. Before DNS, a plain text computer file: “hosts,” was used to map hostnames to IP addresses. The “hosts” file can still be used as an alternative […]

Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC)

Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC) is defined as a public key encryption method that can produce smaller, quicker, and more effective cryptographic keys. There are several advantages of using ECC such as the size of the key required for encryption and digital signatures are far less than with other systems. […]