HAYWARD, Calif.-Mobile e-commerce security provider Certicom Corp. said it supported the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Advanced Encryption Standard to address growing security needs in the marketplace.
“NIST’s AES effort has broken the mold in terms of collaboration with the cryptographic community,” said Susan Langford, senior cryptographic engineer at Certicom and a member of the program committee at NIST’s AES conference. “This means that the AES is likely to achieve public acceptance and adoption faster than previous NIST standards.”
AES, which uses algorithm key sizes of 128 bits, 192 bits and 256 bits, is intended to replace the currently used Data Encryption Standard, which uses a key size of 56 bits that Certicom said is inadequate for most present-day security applications.
