{"id":4906,"date":"2017-11-07T11:19:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T16:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/?p=4906"},"modified":"2017-11-07T11:29:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T16:29:47","slug":"two-hot-new-single-curves-added-to-nist-sp-800-131a-rev-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/2017\/11\/07\/two-hot-new-single-curves-added-to-nist-sp-800-131a-rev-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Two New Curves Added to NIST SP 800-131A Rev. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/csrc.nist.gov\/News\/2017\/Transition-Plans-for-Key-Establishment-Schemes<\/p>\n<p>Curve25519 and Curve448 will be added to the NIST SP 800 this year as new curve schemas for elliptical curve encryption.<\/p>\n<p>Curve25519 is an\u00a0\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Elliptic curve Diffie\u2013Hellman\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elliptic_curve_Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman\">elliptic curve Diffie\u2013Hellman<\/a>\u00a0and uses the equation:\u00a0<var>y<\/var><sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0=\u00a0<var>x<\/var><sup>3<\/sup>\u00a0+ 486662<var>x<\/var><sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0+\u00a0<var>x . You can read more about the curve here.\u00a0<\/var><\/p>\n<p>I found this was a really interesting example of the theoretical stuff we have been reading about in actual use \/ public domain. I had no idea different curves had Wikipedia pages and public discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a reference for some of the things that use Curve 25519:\u00a0https:\/\/ianix.com\/pub\/curve25519-deployment.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/csrc.nist.gov\/News\/2017\/Transition-Plans-for-Key-Establishment-Schemes Curve25519 and Curve448 will be added to the NIST SP 800 this year as new curve schemas for elliptical curve encryption. Curve25519 is an\u00a0\u00a0elliptic curve Diffie\u2013Hellman\u00a0and uses the equation:\u00a0y2\u00a0=\u00a0x3\u00a0+ 486662&#215;2\u00a0+\u00a0x . You can read more about the curve here.\u00a0 I found this was a really interesting example of the theoretical stuff we have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15895,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[716936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-11-it-risk","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15895"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4908,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4906\/revisions\/4908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}