NSA Announces New Crypto Standards 220
Proaxiom writes "This week the NSA announced the new US government standard for key agreement and digital signatures, called Suite B. Suite B uses Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) and Elliptic Curve Menezes-Qu-Vanstone (ECMQV) for key agreement, and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) for signature generation/verification. This shouldn't be too surprising given that the NSA licensed Certicom's EC patents for $25 million last year. ECMQV is patented by Certicom. ECDH and ECDSA appear to be generally unencumbered."
WTF? (Score:5, Funny)
Huh? (Score:3, Funny)
I JUST DON'T KNOW!
Wow... (Score:5, Funny)
Except for their names, of course...
Not unencumbered =( (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Not unencumbered =( (Score:1, Funny)
Surprising Announcement (Score:3, Funny)
I suppose I have to get rid of enigma now (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
I hope life makes more sense now. I can hear digeredoo music.
I just re-read that. I need sleep.
HAH! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:2, Funny)
Certicom is a Canuckistani company... (Score:1, Funny)
'PWNED!!"
Someone always says it (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah I can do large prime factorization in my head. But I'm sure as hell not telling anyone else how to do it.
Re:WTF? (Score:3, Funny)
I need a life. n.n
New Encryption: (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Good encryption? (Score:3, Funny)
[tinfoil] But that's just what they want us to believe... [/tinfoil]
Re:ECMQV broken (Score:3, Funny)