New Vistas in elliptic curve cryptography

  • Authors:
  • Brian A. LaMacchia;John L. Manferdelli

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, USA;Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Information Security Tech. Report
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The past 10 years have been witness to a sea change in the availability and distribution of high security cryptography for broad civilian applications. In this paper, we give a brief history of cryptography support in Windows and describe the upcoming architectural changes, including support for ECC, forthcoming in Windows Vista.