http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050302.gtcrypto0303/BNStory/Technology/ March 2, 2005 Globe and Mail Update MISSISSAUGA, Ont., March 3 - Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), an efficient public key cryptosystem, will become the standard to protect U.S. government communications. The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) presented its strategy and recommendations for securing U.S. government sensitive and unclassified communications, which included a recommended set of advanced cryptography algorithms known as Suite B for securing sensitive and unclassified data. The only public key protocols included in Suite B are Elliptic Curve Menezes-Qu-Vanstone (ECMQV) and Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) for key agreement and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) for authentication. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for data encryption and SHA for hashing are also included. All of the Suite B algorithms are consistent with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publications. ECC is a publicly available algorithm produced by Certicom, which researched and developed ECC-based implementations and security for the past 20 years. Certicom Security Architecture, a modular set of security services, software cryptographic providers (including a FIPS 140-2 Validated cryptographic module), and board support packages, enables device manufacturers and other government suppliers to easily add strong, efficient cryptography that meets the NSA recommendations and NIST publications. _________________________________________ Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005 - http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005
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