Are there any elliptic curve systems and parameter sets which it is
possible to use on a world wide basis?
IEEE P1363 curves and parameters?
Are there libraries licensable worldwide which implement any of these?
Are there freeware or other licensed libraries?
I am aware of Wei Dei's crypto++ v3.1 which is tracking p1363 (
grumble: it's documentation is non-existant).
ftp://www.replay.com/pub/replay/crypto/LIBS/crypto/
Also there is pegwit, and Mike Rosings elliptic packages which I
haven't looked at yet.
The basic question is really is there a simple way to:
- obtain an EC library
- which has no patent restrictions in US or anywhere else
- or license a library (which has patent retrictions) and still be
able to use it in US or anywhere else
Do the certicom people have a library?
Also NIST offers:
June 1999 - Recommmended Elliptic Curves in ASCII
http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/CURVES.txt
Are they suggesting that if/when they do a FIPS on EC, they will all
and any of the listed curves and parameters? Are all of these
parameters patent and copyright free?
Adam
