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Enabling crypto-modernization transition with existing infrastructure

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Code and Cipher vol. 2, Issue 3: Ciphers and Certificates

Increasingly, networks are being used to communicate sensitive data and complete critical transactions. For this reason, the identities of the people, computers, and services involved in communications need to be firmly established. To accomplish this, requirements relating to government communications include ECC-based digital signatures. And industry standards like IETF and IEEE are following suit.

The Certicom ECC Certificate Utility enables you to quickly generate ECC certificates and test applications using technology that enables you to implement in today’s existing infrastructure.

 

Supported X.509 Certificate Types ECC, RSA, DSA
Hybrid certificates
Supported Encoding Formats PEM
PFX
binary
Base 64
X.509 CRLs versions 1, 2, and 3
X.509/PKIX Certificate Validation CRLs
Per-certificate validation results
Supported Key Types ECC, DSA, DH, PKCS #3 DH, RSA
CMS support encode/decode
PKCS #10 certificate requests Yes
Additional Functionality Print BER or DER encoded data in various formats
Print OIDs in various notations
Code Size Approximately 1.5 MB
Supported Platforms AIX
Linux x86
Solaris x86
Windows x86

ECC offers incredible performance benefits to both signing and verification operations. The benefits of ECC are even more apparent when applied to today's applications.

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* performance measured on Windows XP with an Intel 3.00 GHz Pentium 4 processor and 512 KB of memory, using Security Builder by Certicom toolkits.