Re: FIPS Object Module 2.0 - Compliance with 186-3

2012-07-12 Thread Steve Marquess
On 07/09/2012 03:55 PM, John Foley wrote: According to the NIST web site, the 2.0 FIPS Object Module claims compliance for FIPS 186-3 using the Extra Random Bits method for EC public key generation. The implementation is FIPS 186-3 Section B.4.2, Key Pair Generation by Testing Candidates. The

Re: FIPS Object Module 2.0 - Compliance with 186-3

2012-07-12 Thread John Foley
OK, thanks for clarifying this. On 07/12/2012 02:53 PM, Steve Marquess wrote: On 07/09/2012 03:55 PM, John Foley wrote: According to the NIST web site, the 2.0 FIPS Object Module claims compliance for FIPS 186-3 using the Extra Random Bits method for EC public key generation. The

FIPS Object Module 2.0 - Compliance with 186-3

2012-07-09 Thread John Foley
According to the NIST web site, the 2.0 FIPS Object Module claims compliance for FIPS 186-3 using the Extra Random Bits method for EC public key generation. This is taken from: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cavp/documents/dss/ecdsaval.html#270 The extra random bits method is defined in