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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. No, NO. by game+kid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    God owns that patent. You have seen Lindsay or [insert woman's name here] have you? (Unless you are one, in which case you should get some of God's patent tab. God bless 'em.)

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    You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
  2. Re:EEE! by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My Karma! Noooooo!

  3. Re:WTF? by Triv · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am a douche bag. Please send me lots of sick, stupid things at pinteresque@mac.com ... Thank you
    I am the biggest idiot you have ever known. Cleartext email on the intarweb. Hate me!!!