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Certicom Corp. is a cryptography company founded in 1985 by Dr. Scott Vanstone.

The Certicom intellectual property portfolio includes over 350 patents and patents pending worldwide that cover key aspects of elliptic curve cryptography (ECC): software optimizations, efficient hardware implementations, methods to enhance the security, and various cryptographic protocols.^{[citation needed]}

The National Security Agency (NSA) has adopted 26 of Certicom's ECC patents for classified and sensitive but unclassified government communications.^{[citation needed]}

Certicom's current customers include General Dynamics, Motorola, Oracle, Research In Motion and Unisys.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] See also

• SECG
• ECC patents

[edit] External links

• Certicom website