NSA Announces New Crypto Standards

Posted by Zonk on Sunday March 6, 2005 @10:53AM 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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EEE! by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · 2005-03-06 11:00 · Score: -1, Redundant

Nice summary. I haven't seen that many Es in my life since... well, that rave I went to. But then, I can't remember much from before that rave, so I may once have read a summary with more Es. Stay in school.