In July, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, and NTT Corporation announced their success in mutually researching and developing an implementation technology of an elliptic curve cryptosystem, named “CRESERC.” To establish this technology, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric and NTT founded a project team to research and develop a secure and efficient implementation for ECDSA signatures. According to the release: “This is the world’s first case of well-established leaders in the field of cryptography collaborating in the development of implementation technology by integrating their advanced skills and technologies.”
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This issue of Code and Cipher focusses on the subject of key establishment in current security standards and highlights the importance of this often overlooked but central area of concern.