文档介绍：Accredited mittee X9 September 20, 1998
Title: X9-Financial Services
Accredited by the
American National Standards Institute
Working Draft
AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARD
-1998
Public Key Cryptography For The Financial Services Industry:
The Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)©
Notice -- This document is a draft document. It has not yet been processed through the consensus
procedures of X9 and ANSI.
Many changes which may greatly affect its contents can occur before this document pleted.
The working group may not be held responsible for the contents of this document.
Implementation or design based on this draft is at the risk of the user. No advertisement or
citation pliance with a "Standard" should appear as it is erroneous and misleading to
so state.
Copies of the draft proposed American National Standard will be available from the X9 Secretariat
when the document is finally announced for two months ment. Notice of this
announcement will be in the trade press.
Secretariat: American Bankers Association
Standards Department
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Foreword
(Informative)
Business practice has changed with the introduction puter-based technologies. The substitution of electronic
transactions for their paper-based predecessors has reduced costs and improved efficiency. Trillions of dollars in
funds and securities are transferred daily by telephone, wire services, and other munication
mechanisms. The high value or sheer volume of such transactions within an open environment exposes the financial
community and its customers to potentially severe risks from accidental or deliberate alteration, substitution or
destruction of data. This risk pounded by works, and the increased number and
sophistication of malicious adversaries.
Some of the conventional “due care” controls used with paper-based transactions are unavailable in