IEEE 1363-2000 pdf free download.IEEE Standard Specifications for Public-Key Cryptography.
Abstract: This standard specifies common public-key cryptographic techniques, including mathematical primitives for secret value(ke )derivation, public-key encryption, and digital signatures, and cryptographic schemes based on those primitives. It also specifies related cryptographic parameters, public keys, and private keys. The purpose of this standard is to provide a reference for specifications on a variety of techniques from which applications may select
Keywords: digital signature, encryption, key agreement, public-key cryptograph.
The P1363 project started as the “Standard for Rivest-Shamir-Adleman, Diffie-Hellman, and Related Public-Key Cryptography, with its first meeting held in January 1994, following a strategic initiative by the Microprocessor Standards Committee to develop standards for cryptography.
P1363 s scope broadened with the inclusion of elliptic curve cryptosystems as related cryptography, and later the title was changed to the current one to reflect the breadth of the effort. In mid-1996, the working group decided to include three families of techniques, based on three different hard problems-integer factorization, discrete logarithms over finite fields, and elliptic curve discrete logarithms. By late 1996, the set of techniques was fairly stable, with additional techniques deferred to the P1363a project.
Most of the next two years saw an increasing intensity of editing, as the Working Group sought to fulfill the scope that remained. In early 1998, the group set a schedule for completion that would bring the document to ballot in late 1998, and final sections of the document were prepared.
The process of developing a standard is always a challenging one, particularly when the subject is as technical as cryptography and the scope is as broad as proposed for P1363. Moreover, as other groups were developing complementary standards at the same time as P1363, close coordination was an essential aspect Security implies a great deal of caution, and the Working Group was careful in its deliberations not to set any standards ” that might later lead to vulnerabilities (although, as it is pointed out elsewhere, this standard is much more about a framework for specifying public-key techniques, than it is about security, per se).IEEE 1363 pdf download.