EE Times -NSA specifies elliptic-curve crypto for security applications

EE Times -NSA specifies elliptic-curve crypto for security applications: "The spy agency's support of ECC protocols represents an interesting turn in NSA's continued analysis of private- and public-key crypto systems. Previously, NSA had opposed wide industry use of public-key crypto. The agency influenced the design of the original private-key Data Encryption Standard, and tried to push companies toward use of the agency-developed Clipper/Capstone crypto-chip program. "