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PKIX Working Group                                   Daniel R. L. Brown,
INTERNET-DRAFT                                            Certicom Corp.
Expires December 3, 2001                                    June 3, 2002
     				                              

               NIST Recommended EC Domain Parameters For PKIX
            <draft-ietf-pkix-ecc-nist-recommended-curves-00.txt>


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                               Abstract

   This document gives the object identifiers for the elliptic curve
   domain pararmeters that the National Institute of Standards and
   Techology recommends in its publication "Digital Signature
   Standard" (Federal Infomration Processing Standards 186-2).  These
   elliptic curve domain prameters are defined to align PKIX with
   other ECC implementations and standards.  It should be noted that
   this document is not self-contained.  It uses the notations and
   definitions of [PKIX].
 
                           Table of Contents

   1. Introduction ............................................... 2
   2. OIDs for NIST Recommnded EC Domain Paramters ............... 3
   3. Security Considerations .................................... 3
   4. Intellectual Property Rights ............................... 3
   5. Acknowledgments ............................................ 4
   6. References ................................................. 4
   7. Authors' Addresses ......................................... 5








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1.  Introduction

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC 2119].

   This document specifies algorithm identifiers and ASN.1 [X.660]
   encoding formats for digital signatures and subject public keys
   used in the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).  This
   specification supplements [RFC 3279], "Algorithms and Identifiers
   for the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and
   Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile " Implementations of this
   specification MUST also conform to RFC 3279.

   This specification describes the object identifiers used when
   identifying elliptic curve domain parameters for elliptic curve
   public keys.  In particular it describes some object identifiers in
   [ANSI X9.63] "American National Standard for Financial Services
   X9.63-2001: Public Key Cryptography for the Financial Services
   Industry: Key Agreement and Key Transport Using Elliptic Curve
   Cryptography". These object identifiers are the named curves of
   [ANSI X9.63] and are convenient way to identify certain elliptic
   domain parameters.  These curves and their object identifiers are
   also given in [SEC 2] "Recommended Elliptic Curve Domain
   Parameters".

   NIST also recommends these named curves in [FIPS 186-2] "Digital
   Signature Standard (DSS)".

   The fifteen NIST recommended elliptic curve domain parameters have
   the object identifiers named

     secp192r1, sect163k1, sect163r2,  
     secp224r1, sect233k1, sect233r1,  
     secp256r1, sect283k1, sect283r1,  
     secp384r1, sect409k1, sect409r1,  
     secp521r1, sect571k1, sect571r1. 

   The values of these object identifiers are given in [ANSI X9.63],
   [SEC 2] and Section 2 of this specification.  The descriptions of
   these elliptic curve domain parameters are given in [ANSI X9.63]
   and [SEC 2].









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2. OIDs for NIST Recommnded EC Domain Paramters

   The object identifiers for NIST recommended curves extend the
   object identifiers anxi-x9-62 and elliptiCurve whose values are
   
      ansi-x9-62 OBJECT IDENTIFER ::= {
	    iso(1) member-body(2) us(840) 10045
      }

      ellipticCurve OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {
        iso(1) identified-organization(3) certicom(132) curve(0)
      }

   The values of the object identifiers for the fifteen NIST
   recommended curves are

     secp192r1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { ansi-x9-62 curves(3) prime(1) 1 } 
     sect163k1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { ellipticCurve 1 } 
     sect163r2 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { ellipticCurve 15 } 
     secp224r1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { ellipticCurve 33 } 
     sect233k1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { ellipticCurve 26 } 
     sect233r1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { ellipticCurve 27 } 
     secp256r1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { ansi-x9-62 curves(3) prime(1) 7 } 
     sect283k1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { ellipticCurve 16 } 
     sect283r1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { ellipticCurve 17 } 
     secp384r1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { ellipticCurve 34 } 
     sect409k1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { ellipticCurve 36 } 
     sect409r1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { ellipticCurve 37 }   
     secp521r1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { ellipticCurve 35 } 
     sect571k1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { ellipticCurve 38 } 
     sect571r1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { ellipticCurve 39 }  


3. Security Considerations

   To be added later.

4. Intellectual Property Rights

  The IETF has been notified of intellectual property rights claimed
  in regard to the specification contained in this document.  For more
  information, consult the online list of claimed rights
  (http://www.ietf.org/ipr.html).







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  The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any
  intellectual property or other rights that might be claimed to
  pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in
  this document or the extent to which any license under such rights
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  can be obtained from the IETF Secretariat.


5. Acknowledgments

  To be added later.


6. References
    
      
      
  [FIPS 186-2] U.S. Department of Commerce/National Institute of
     Standards and Technology. Digital Signature Standard (DSS), FIPS
     PUB 186-2, January 2000.
     (http://csrc.nist.gov/fips/fips186-2.pdf)

  [RFC 3279] W. Polk, R. Housley and L. Bassham.  Algorithms and
     Identifiers for the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
     Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile, April
     2002.
      
  [SEC2] Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group. SEC 2 -
     Recommended Elliptic Curve Domain Parameters. Working Draft
     Ver. 0.6., 1999.  (http://www.secg.org)

  [X9.63] American National Standard for Financial Services. ANSI
     X9.63-2001, Public Key Cryptography for the Financial Services
     Industry: Key Agreement and Key Transport using Elliptic Curve
     Cryptography.  November 2001.








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7. Authors' Addresses

    Authors:

           Daniel R. L. Brown
           Certicom Corp.
           dbrown@certicom.com











































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