Certicom Certicom

Certicom - Definition and Overview

Certicom is a security company specialising in elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). The company was founded in 1985 by Scott Vanstone, spun off from the University of Waterloo. Its headquarters are in Mississauga, Canada.

Certicom hold over 130 patents in elliptic curve cryptography, and have licensed their technology to several customers, including Texas Instruments, Palm, Cisco Systems, Oracle and Motorola, and, notably, the US cryptography agency NSA in a US$25 million deal.

External links

Copyright 2009 WordIQ.com - Privacy Policy  :: Terms of Use  :: Contact Us  :: About Us
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the this Wikipedia article.