NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption

[brian-slashdotnews at hyperreal.org]

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-A906
EDDA8EBA
   7.
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=78&alloc_id=1118&site_id=1&request_id=1015416&op=c
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