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October 2008 Calendar

CS Masters' Thesis Defense

Title: Implementation of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signatures over NIST Curves
Speaker: Arun Agrawal
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: GMCS 405
Thesis advisor: Dr Carl Eckberg

Abstract:
This work focuses on the implementation of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) in publicly available format. The application is broken into 3 major parts, namely, key generation, signing documents, and verifying documents. In order to ensure that data can be re-used by any application the keys generated are in human-readable format with the all the parameters provided in it. The application implements all the prime curves that are recommended by the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST). Also, users have the option to select the hashing algorithm to be used in conjunction with the ECC curve. This provides users with the ability to select their preferred level of security when digitally signing a message. For completeness, we present the necessary background material, which includes elliptic curves and the basics of digital signatures.
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