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NSA Announces New Crypto Standards

Posted by Zonk on from the less-tasty-crackers dept.

Proaxiom writes "This week the NSA announced the new US government standard for key agreement and digital signatures, called Suite B. Suite B uses Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) and Elliptic Curve Menezes-Qu-Vanstone (ECMQV) for key agreement, and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) for signature generation/verification. This shouldn't be too surprising given that the NSA licensed Certicom's EC patents for $25 million last year. ECMQV is patented by Certicom. ECDH and ECDSA appear to be generally unencumbered."

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  1. How nice... and irrelivant. by Duncan3 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well that's nice and all, we already have completely unencombered ways of doing crypto.

    Now the bad guys will have to license the patents before they install a key logger, oh no!

    Nothing to see here, move along.

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  2. Re:Tits by Datamonstar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No way! GNAA don't know what tits feel like.

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  3. Re:ECMQV broken by caluml · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Riiiight. The NSA say it's OK, but an Anonymous Coward blurting out some shit to get a first post gets +4, Interesting.

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  4. Re:Obvious conclusion: NSA has fast factoring by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    no offense, but you're a fucking idiot