It relies heavily on elliptic curve cryptography. In an interview, Mr. Vaughn said N.S.A. officials sent math experts to the conferences he sponsored. “They always had people there,” he recalled.

It includes a FIPS 186 elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA), secure storage of keys and secure storage of application data – comminicating with its host over its single wire bus. The IC ...

Project Eleven, a quantum computing research and advocacy firm, has launched the Q-Day Prize, a global competition offering 1 bitcoin (BTC) to the first team able to break an elliptic curve ...