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Performance Evaluation of SSL V3.0 and Elliptic Curve Cryptography against RSA Over network communication between client and server

Key words: Secure socket layer, ECC, RSA NS-2

Secure socket layer is a computer networking protocol for securing connection between client
and server over unsecure network. It is an important technology in business sector as well as an
active area of research. SSL very important role for SSL protects confidential information
through the use of cryptography. Sensitive data is encrypted across public networks to achieve a
level of confidentiality. Server and clients often use SSL for secure communications where the server must have a public and private key pair. The server uses its private key to sign messages to clients. The server sends its public key to clients so these clients can verify that the signed messages come from the server
and so they can encrypt messages to the server. The server then decrypts these messages with its
private key. SSL is the most widely used security protocol on the network so more efficient SSL have a
significant impact on the key size and execution time. This thesis paper compares these two
cryptosystems identify the significant advantage of one over the other when implemented the
simulation of SSL with RSA perform lower while the winning combination remain ECC with
SSL as per the metrics like key size, key generation time ,encryption and decryption time, end to
end delay and average throughput in NS-2 simulator.