Re: Elliptic Curves

[Tim Polk <wpolk@xxxxxxxx>]

At 05:20 AM 6/16/97, Housley, Russ wrote:
>
>Since we began work on PKIX part 1, Elliptic Curve thecnology has become 
>more and more mature.  In fact, ANSI X9.62 looks pretty close to final.  
>How do people feel about ading the ECDSA algorithm to the list of signature 
>algorithms in part 1?
>
>Russ
>
>

At NIST, we are also comfortable with the current draft of X9.62.  We have
already put ECDSA in our "Minimum Interoperability Specification for PKI
Components", and would support adding ECDSA to the PKIX-1 document.

Tim Polk