The Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group (SECG), an industry consortium, was founded in 1998 to develop commercial standards that facilitate the adoption of efficient cryptography and interoperability across a wide range of computing platforms. SECG members include leading technology companies and key industry players in the information security industry.

 

Announcements

A general meeting of the SECG will be held on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto Canada from 1PM - 4PM. This meeting is being held in conjunction with Certicom's ECC Conference which runs from 13th - 15th ofNovember at the same location.

Tentative Agenda:

SEC 1 - review latest version of the scheduled five year revision cycle. SEC 1 specifies the basic ECC public key schemes for digital signatures, encryption and key transport, and key agreement schemes.

SEC 2 - review the proposed changes to SEC 2. SEC 2 specifies the recommended domain parameters for ECC.

SEC 4 - review the current draft of this proposed new standard. SEC 4 contains the specification for the ECQV implicit certificate scheme.