[Cryptography Team] ECC and/or NSA Suite B?

[Matthew S. Hamrick]

Actually, they're distinct sets. FIPS-140 supports ECDSA, but not  
EQMV or EQDH.

Another thing to note... FIPS-140 supports ciphers that are insecure.  
Namely, DES.

On Nov 24, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Cerebus wrote:

> On 11/24/06, Matthew S. Hamrick <mhamrick at cryptonomicon.net> wrote:
>
>> Um... what products? For new products, the US DoD now requires Suite
>> B, not FIPS 140 for SBU.
>
> Correct, but Suite B is not an evaluation & certification program.
> It's a subset of FIPS-certifiable algorithms that NSA has selected for
> certain purposes.  Implementations of Suite B algorithms still must be
> FIPS 140-2 certified.
>
> -- Tim
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