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NEC (Yet another PKC?) Network Encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tamaster@technologist.com)
Mon Dec 15 12:27:27 1997
From: tamaster@technologist.com
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:19:49 -0600 (CST)
To: cryptography@c2.net
NEC Develops Superior Network Encryption
Nikkei English News via Individual Inc. : TOKYO (Nikkei)--NEC Corp. has
developed high-speed network encryption technology safer than the de
facto world standard RSA method and more difficult to break than the
next-generation elliptic encryption code, company officials said.
NEC plans to commercialize the technology in spring 1998.
The method involves a more complex function than the elliptic curve and
will be impossible to break for at least some years, the officials said.
The new technology requires only one tenth of the 1,000 digits or longer
used in the RSA code key to deliver the same level of security, they said.
Elliptic encryption uses a three-dimensional function called the elliptic
curve.
(The Nihon Shimbun Saturday morning edition)
<<Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. -- 12-12-97>>
