Big Japanese firms claim encryption breakthrough

http://www.theinquirer.net/print.aspx?article=10709&print=1 Big Japanese firms claim encryption breakthrough Elliptic curve cryptosystems By INQUIRER staff: Monday 28 July 2003, 07:36 NTT, MITSUBISHI and Hitachi today said they have succeded in developing a more effective type of cryptography based on what the companies call elliptic curve cryptosystems. Earlier this year, the European Union started NESSIE 5, a plan to use next generation cryptography, and chose Camella 6, Misty1 7 and PSEC-KEM as algorithms - developed by Mitsubishi and NTT. NESSIE stands for the New European Schemes for Signatures Integrity and Encryption. Camellia is a 128-bit block encryption algorithm, Misty1 is a 64-bit block encryption algorithm, while PSEC-KEM is an NTT public key encryption algorithm. The firms said that the new project, codenamed CRESERC, creates public key cryptosystems using mathematical operations over elliptic curves. µ -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com