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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. Tits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I like titties so much!!! They are so soft and nice. I LOVE THEM!!!!

    1. Re:Tits by ZeroExistenZ · · Score: -1, Troll

      I'm not sure if it's the elyptic curve <-> titties relation that this got modded "insightful"

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  2. Re:ECMQV broken by jericho4.0 · · Score: 0, Troll
    The NSA is in the business of breaking encryption, not providing unbreakable encryption.

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