oh, and slightly related news item to fips186-2 and ecdsa NSA posts notice about faster, lighter crypto http://www.fcw.com/article91669-12-09-05-Web
and some additional URLs from the above The Case for Elliptic Curve Cryptography http://www.nsa.gov/ia/industry/crypto_elliptic_curve.cfm Certicom speeds digital signature verification http://www.fcw.com/article90245-08-22-05-Web Fact Sheet NSA Suite B Cryptography http://www.nsa.gov/ia/industry/crypto_suite_b.cfm from nsa suite B(original announced at 2005 RSA Conference) site: SUITE B includes: Encryption: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) - FIPS 197 (with keys sizes of 128 and 256 bits) http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips197/fips-197.pdf* Digital Signature: Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm - FIPS 186-2 (using the curves with 256 and 384-bit prime moduli) http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips186-2/fips186-2-change1.pdf* Key Exchange: Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman or Elliptic Curve MQV Draft NIST Special Publication 800-56 (using the curves with 256 and 384-bit prime moduli) http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/kms/keyschemes-Jan03.pdf* Hashing: Secure Hash Algorithm - FIPS 180-2 (using SHA-256 and SHA-384) http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-2/fips180-2withchangenotice.pdf* -- Anne & Lynn Wheeler | http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/
