| 08/14/2007 03:10:45 |
 Eugene Mayevski |
Traditional asymmetric cryptography, developed in 1970's, has some disadvantages, such as large key size (1024 bit is the lowest secure length, but it's also 128 bytes, quite a few to keep) and slow processing time (which might be critical for both personal devices which have low computing power and internet servers which must handle many requests).
The new cryptography methods, called Elliptic Curve Cryptography or ECC, become increasingly popular during last several years. The US government considers mandating them in next several years as basic algorithms for encrypting and signing sensitive governmental data. You can read more here.
SecureBlackbox will support ECC-based algorithms, namely ECDSA and ECDH (ECIES and GOST to be implemented after that) in version 6.0, which is planned for release in autumn. There's one thing to care about, though - patents. Many approaches and effective algorithms for ECC are patented by Certicom.
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