Certicom Corp. is a cryptography company founded in 1985 by Gordon Agnew. Is Gordon Agnew an engineering professor at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada? Maybe. ...

The Certicom intellectual property portfolio includes over 350 patents and patents pending worldwide that cover key aspects of elliptic curve cryptography (ECC): software optimizations, efficient hardware implementations, methods to enhance the security, and various cryptographic protocols.^{[citation needed]} For the 2006 film, see Intellectual Property (movie). ... Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is an approach to public-key cryptography based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields. ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) has adopted 26 of Certicom's ECC patents for classified and sensitive but unclassified government communications.^{[citation needed]} The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) is the U.S. governments cryptologic organization. ...

Certicom's current customers include General Dynamics, Motorola, Oracle, Research In Motion and Unisys.^{[citation needed]} General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) is a defense conglomerate formed by mergers and divestitures, and as of 2005 it is the sixth largest defense contractor in the world[1]. The company has changed markedly in the post-Cold War era of defense consolidation. ... Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is an American multinational communications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. ... Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is one of the major companies developing database management systems (DBMS), tools for database development, middle-tier software (Fusion Middleware), enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain planning (SCM) software. ... Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (TSX: RIM, NASDAQ: RIMM) is a Canadian wireless device company. ... Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS), based in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States, and incorporated in Delaware[2], is a global provider of information technology services and solutions. ...

See also

• SECG
• ECC patents

In cryptography, the Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group (SECG) is an international consortium founded by Certicom in 1998. ... Patent-related uncertainty around the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is one of the main factors limiting its wide acceptance, for example, the OpenSSL team has accepted the ECC patch only in 2005 (version 0. ...

External links

• Certicom website