New Vistas in elliptic curve cryptography

  • Brian LaMacchia ,
  • John Manferdelli

Inf. Secur. Tech. Rep. | , Vol 11: pp. 186-192

doi:10.1016/j.istr.2006.09.002

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.