We proudly present a new maintenance release of our IAIK ECCelerate™ elliptic curve library! Version 5.01 fixes minor bugs. IAIK ECCelerate™ is based on Java 6 technology and has been thoroughly optimized for speed. Currently, it supports ECDSA, EdDSA, ECDH, X25519/448, ECIES and optionally ECMQV.
The new versions of IAIK-JCE and iSaSiLk follow up the recently released new version of IAIK-ECCelerateTM (5.0). IAIK-JCE 5.52 brings some fixes and additions, and iSaSiLk 5.2 adds support for x25519 and x448 ECDHE key exchange and EdDSA signing using Curve25519 and Curve448. Furthermore iSaSiLk now supports RSA-PSS signatures.
The “Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communication” of Graz University of Technology has established the “Stiftung Secure Information and Communication Technologies SIC”, dedicating a fund of 2.320.000 €, aiming at encouraging independent scientific research, development as well as teaching and knowledge transfer in the fields of applied information processing, communication and information security.
This “Stiftung Secure Information and Communication Technologies SIC” has been declared admissible by notification from the “Stiftungsbehörde Fachabteilung FA7C“ – “Innere Angelegenheiten, Staatsbürgerschaft und Aufenthaltswesen – Landesstiftungen und –Fonds” on February 5, 2003 (legal effect on February 13, 2003). The regulations of the foundation and its authenticated approval have been filed in the “Willbriefsammlung des Steiermärkischen Landesarchivs unter LReg. Vertrag Nr. 5509”
The foundation awards benefits within the scope of the foundation. For this purpose a policy has been defined, which has been adopted by the board of the foundation on February 6, 2004.