Talk:Capstone (cryptography)

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Capstone was a chip not the name for the project

The project was called Escrowed Encryption Standard [1], Capstone was the name for a chip ``Project CAPSTONE has been designed as the Next Generation Data Encryption Standard (DES2) for use by the Federal Government. Project CAPSTONE consists of an Integrated Circuit (IC) incorporating a suite of cryptographic algorithms necessary to provide confidentiality, data integrity and public key management. This IC is known as the CAPSTONE device or simply CAPSTONE.'' [2]

[1] "Escrowed Encryption Standard." FIPS PUB 185; 1994 February 9: U.S. Department of Commerce, Technology Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology. http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips185/fips185.pdf

[2] https://cryptome.org/capstone.htm

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