Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography (Revised)

Published

March 14, 2007

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Don Johnson, Miles E. Smid

Abstract

[Superseded by SP 800-56A Rev. 2 (May 2013): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=913431] This Recommendation provides the specifications of key establishment schemes that are appropriate for use by the U.S. Federal Government, based on standards developed by the Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X9, Inc.: American National Standard (ANS) X9.42 Agreement of Symmetric Keys using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography and ANS X9.63 Key Agreement and Key Transport using Elliptic Curve Cryptography. A key establishment scheme can be characterized as either a key agreement scheme or a key transport scheme. The asymmetric-key-based key agreement schemes in this Recommendation are based on the Diffie-Hellman (DH) and Menezes-Qu-Vanstone (MQV) algorithms. In addition, an asymmetric-key-based key transport scheme is specified. [Supersedes SP 800-56A (May 2006): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=917476]

Citation

Special Publication (NIST SP) - 800-56A Rev

Report Number

800-56A Rev

NIST Pub Series

Special Publication (NIST SP)

Pub Type

NIST Pubs

Supercedes Publication

Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Schemes Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography

Superceded By Publication

Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Schemes Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography

Keywords

assurances, Diffie-Hellman, key agreement, key confirmation, key derivation, key establishment, key transport, MQV

Citation

Barker, E. , Johnson, D. and Smid, M. (2007), Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography (Revised), Special Publication (NIST SP), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (Accessed April 19, 2024)