Information technology - Security techniques - Cryptographic techniques based on elliptic curves - Part 5: Elliptic curve generation

Designation Number:

CSA ISO/IEC 15946-5

Standard Type:

National Standard of Canada - Adoption of International Standard

Standard Development Activity:

New Standard

Status:

Proceeding to development

SDO Comment Period Start Date:

2019-10-01

SDO Comment Period End Date:

2019-10-23

Posted On:

2019-09-20

Scope:

The ISO/IEC 15946 series specifies public-key cryptographic techniques based on elliptic curves described in ISO/IEC 15946-1.

This document defines elliptic curve generation techniques useful for implementing the elliptic curve based mechanisms defined in ISO/IEC 29192-4, ISO/IEC 9796-3, ISO/IEC 11770-3, ISO/IEC 14888-3 and ISO/IEC 18033-2.

This document is applicable to cryptographic techniques based on elliptic curves defined over finite fields of prime power order (including the special cases of prime order and characteristic two). This document is not applicable to the representation of elements of the underlying finite field (i.e. which basis is used).

The ISO/IEC 15946 series does not specify the implementation of the techniques it defines.

Project need:

To align Canadian requirements with those of the respective international standards being proposed for adoption. To maintain alignment between Canadian information and communication technology standards and each respective international standard

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