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PKI CRADAs
Cooperative Research With Industry
The NIST PKI program partners with industry in the identification
and removal of technical obstacles to implementation and use of
public key infrastructures by government agencies. Cooperative Research
and Development Agreements (CRADAs) are an important vehicle for
that partnership.
Recent CRADAs
NIST's CRADAs used in the development of the development of the
August 2000 draft of the MISPC expired in
January 2000. Companies participating in those CRADA agrements are
listed below:
- AT&T
- CertCo
- Certicom
- Cylink
- Digital Signature Trust
- Dyncorp
- Entrust
- Frontier Technologies
- GTE
- ID Certify
- MasterCard
- Microsoft
- Motorola
- Spyrus
- VeriSign
- Visa
These CRADAs focus on the enhancement of the MISPC.
Initial CRADAs
CRADAs agreements have a limited lifespan - generally to 12 to18
months. NIST entered into a series of 24-month PKI CRADAs which
expired in 1997. The companies which particiapted in that CRADA
effort were:
- AT&T
- BBN (now part of GTE)
- Certicom
- Cylink
- Dyncorp
- Northern Telecom (now Entrust)
- IRE
- Motorola
- Spyrus
- VeriSign
These CRADAs focused on the development of the MISPC, Version 1.
This CRADA product has been formally published as SP
800-15, and is available for download.
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