Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/26/1550237 Posted by: simoniker, on 2003-10-26 16:32:00 Topic: encryption, 66 comments from the chinese-government-buys-certicom dept. [1]Roland Piquepaille writes "According to eWEEK, the National Security Agency (NSA) has [2]picked a commercial solution for its encryption technology needs, instead on relying on its own proprietary code. "The National Security Agency has purchased a license for [3]Certicom Corp.'s elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) system, and plans to make the technology a standard means of securing classified communications. In the case of the NSA deal, the agency wanted to use a 512-bit key for the ECC system. This is the equivalent of an RSA key of 15,360 bits." [4]This summary includes the NIST guidelines for public key sizes and contains more details and links about the ECC technology. Since [5]the announcement, Canadian Press reports that [6]Certicom's shares more than doubled in Toronto." [7]Click Here References 1. http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/ 2. http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3048,a=110561,00.asp 3. http://www.certicom.com/ 4. http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/10/26.html 5. http://www.certicom.com/about/pr/03/031024_nsadeal.html 6. http://www.canada.com/news/business/story.asp?id=04C5E67A-D640-4372-9E9E-A90... EDDA8EBA 7. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=78&alloc_id=1118&site_id=1&request_id=1015416&op=c lick&page=%2farticle%2epl ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]