ECDSA

From CryptoDox, The Online Encyclopedia on Cryptography and Information Security

Elliptic Curve DSA (ECDSA) is a variant of the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) which operates on elliptic curve groups. DSA was specified in a U.S. Government Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) called the Digital Signature Standard (DSS 70).

The strength-per-key-bit is substantially greater in an algorithm that uses elliptic curves like ECDSA.

Contents 1 History of Acceptance 2 Software Support 3 See Also 4 External Links

History of Acceptance

• ECDSA was accepted as an ISO standard in 1998.
• ECDSA was accepted as an ANSI standard in 1999.
• In 2000 it was accepted as IEEE and NIST standards.

Software Support

The following software tools/applications have support for ECDSA:

• Crypto++

See Also

• Elliptic curve cryptography

External Links

• ECDSA at Wikipedia
• ECDSA - Certicom (PDF)

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