http://www.eet.com/sys/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=60404977 NSA specifies elliptic-curve crypto for security applications By Loring Wirbel , EE Times <http://www.eetimes.com/;jsessionid=3J52X3FMWO51MQSNDBGCKHSCJUMEKJVN> March 03, 2005 (10:22 AM EST) URL: http://www.eet.com/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=60404977 <http://www.eet.com/article/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=3J52X3FMWO51MQSNDBGCKHSCJUMEKJVN?articleId=60404977&sub_taxonomyID=> <SNIP> Last October, the agency referred to ECC as one of the few public-key systems that could meet equivalent security standards to the private-key AES. NSA (Fort Meade, Md.) is recommending a series of algorithms called "Suite B" for securing sensitive and unclassified data. Suite B includes Elliptic-Curve Menezes-Qu-Vanstone and Elliptic-Curve Diffie-Hellman for key agreement, along with the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm for digital signatures. AES and Secure Hashing Algorithm also are included in Suite B.