http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1363251,00.asp NSA Buys License for Certicom's Encryption Technology By Dennis Fisher October 24, 2003 In an extraordinary move, the National Security Agency has purchased a license for Certicom Corp.'s elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) system, and plans to make the technology a standard means of securing classified communications. As part of the $25 million agreement, the NSA can grant sublicenses within a limited field of use. This most likely will include other government agencies, federal contractors and other parties that send sensitive data to the agency. ... snip ... -- Internet trivia, 20th anv: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
