RFC 6090: Fundamental Elliptic Curve Cryptography Algorithms

This note describes the fundamental algorithms of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) as they were defined in some seminal references from 1994 and earlier.…

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Incoming relationships (32 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7518: JSON Web Algorithms (JWA)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8152: CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9053: CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE): Initial Algorithms
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7182: Integrity Check Value and Timestamp TLV Definitions for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9528: Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6161: Elliptic Curve Algorithms for Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) Encrypted Key Package Content Type
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6162: Elliptic Curve Algorithms for Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) Asymmetric Key Package Content Type
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8208: BGPsec Algorithms, Key Formats, and Signature Formats
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6160: Algorithms for Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) Protection of Symmetric Key Package Content Types
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6507: Elliptic Curve-Based Certificateless Signatures for Identity-Based Encryption (ECCSI)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7251: AES-CCM Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Cipher Suites for TLS
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6508: Sakai-Kasahara Key Encryption (SAKKE)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7192: Algorithms for Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) Key Package Receipt and Error Content Types
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6278: Use of Static-Static Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement in Cryptographic Message Syntax
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6617: Secure Pre-Shared Key (PSK) Authentication for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol (IKE)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9958: Post-Quantum Cryptography for Engineers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7252: The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7401: Host Identity Protocol Version 2 (HIPv2)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6189: ZRTP: Media Path Key Agreement for Unicast Secure RTP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6605: Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) for DNSSEC
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6955: Diffie-Hellman Proof-of-Possession Algorithms
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6584: Simple Authentication Schemes for the Asynchronous Layered Coding (ALC) and NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) Protocols
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6931: Additional XML Security Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9580: OpenPGP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9191: Handling Large Certificates and Long Certificate Chains in TLS-Based EAP Methods
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6594: Use of the SHA-256 Algorithm with RSA, Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA), and Elliptic Curve DSA (ECDSA) in SSHFP Resource Records
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6637: Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) in OpenPGP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7664: Dragonfly Key Exchange
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9231: Additional XML Security Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6954: Using the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Brainpool Curves for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8374: BGPsec Design Choices and Summary of Supporting Discussions
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9588: Kerberos Simple Password-Authenticated Key Exchange (SPAKE) Pre-authentication