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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. WTF? by Kesh · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's a helluva lot of acronyms. Talk about encoding!

  2. Wow... by nuclear305 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "ECDH and ECDSA appear to be generally unencumbered."

    Except for their names, of course...

  3. Not unencumbered =( by mg2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    All elliptical curve math, unfortunately, falls under Microsoft's patent on all things curvy or mildly resembling a circle. =\

  4. I suppose I have to get rid of enigma now by multi-flavor-geek · · Score: 5, Funny

    And I was just getting the kinks out of a usb powered enigma machine to provide encryption for online banking. I mean damn? Who could ever crack enigma?

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  5. Re:Huh? by bcmm · · Score: 4, Funny

    The NSA is secure. You are not secure, the NSA ()\/\/|\|Z your computer, and possibly your mind. I exist, but I can't prove it. You might not exist, you might be a highly unlikely bug in Slashcode. My advice to you, if you exist, or even if you are just a bug, is to eat lots of cheese for supper, possibly in a pizza, unless you are lactose intolerant.

    I hope life makes more sense now. I can hear digeredoo music.

    I just re-read that. I need sleep.

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