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IEEE
APPROVES IT STANDARDS FOR PUBLIC-KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY AND FOR CASE
TOOL REFERENCE MODEL
IEEE
Also Begins Standards to Extend STIL for Test Flows and on Data
Model Instances in XML
Contact:
Karen McCabe, IEEE Senior Marketing Manager
+1 732
562 3824, k.mccabe@ieee.org
PISCATAWAY,
N.J., USA, 16 April 2004 The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA)
has approved a new standard that contains additional common public-key
cryptographic keys to supplement an IEEE standard published in
2000. It also approved a revision to a standard reference model
for specifying software behavior and started work on two information
technology standards: one to extend the Standard Test Interface
Language and the other for data model instances in eXtensible
Markup Language.
The new standard, IEEE P1363a, "Standard Specifications for
Public-Key Cryptography, Amendment 1: Additional Techniques,"
contains common public-key cryptographic methods that supplement
the basic techniques described in IEEE 1363™-2000. Taken
together, these two standards offer a comprehensive reference
defining common public-key techniques used for electronic privacy
and authenticity. These methods include mathematical primitives
for secret value (key) derivation, public-key encryption, digital
signatures, identification, and cryptographic schemes based on
those primitives.
The other approved standard, IEEE 1175.3™, "Standard
for CASE Tool Inter-connections: Reference Model for Specifying
Software Behavior," is a modest revision of the standard
that identifies a common set of modeling concepts in commercial
CASE tools for describing the operational behavior of software
products. This revision of Part 3 of IEEE 1175™ applies to
interconnecting CASE tools having modeling concepts limited to
conventional tool models for simple software behavior.
New Standards
Begun
One of the new projects, IEEE P1450.4, "Standard for Extensions
to Standard Test Interface Language (STIL) (IEEE Std. 1450-1999)
for Test Flow Specification," will provide constructs that
describe the test program flow and sequencing data needed to compose
a test program for automatic test equipment platforms. The structures
defined in STIL (the standard for interchanging digital test data
between test generation and test and manufacturing environments)
will include test flows to make automated modification or maintenance
easier, a common interface between the flow environment and test
program components, and variables managed by the flow.
The other new standards project, IEEE P1484.11.3™, "Standard
for Learning Technology eXtensible Markup Language (XML) Schema
Binding for Data Model for Content Object Communication,"
will specify a W3C XML schema for binding the data model defined
in IEEE 1484.11.1™. It will allow the creation of IEEE 1484.11.1
data-model instances in XML and uses the W3C schema definition
language for encoding, which allows for interoperability and the
exchange of data-model instances between various systems.
Reaffirmed
Standards
The IEEE also
reaffirmed the continued use of three standards:
- 1320.1™-1998,
"IEEE Standard for Functional Modeling Language - Syntax
and Semantics for IDEF0."
- 1320.2-1998™,
"IEEE Standard for Conceptual Modeling Language - Syntax
and Semantics for IDEF1X97 (IDEFobject)."
- 1517-1999™,
"IEEE Standard for Information Technology - Software Life
Cycle Processes - Reuse Processes."
All of the
above projects are sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society.
About the
IEEE Standards Association
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA), a global standards-setting
body, develops consensus standards through an open process that
brings diverse parts of an industry together. It has a portfolio
of more than 870 completed standards and more than 400 in development.
IEEE-SA promotes the engineering process by creating, developing,
integrating, sharing and applying knowledge about electro- and
information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity
and the profession. For further information on IEEE-SA visit:
http://standards.ieee.org/.
About the
IEEE
The IEEE has more than 380,000 members in approximately 150 countries.
Through its members, the organization is a leading authority on
areas ranging from aerospace, computers and telecommunications
to biomedicine, electric power and consumer electronics. The IEEE
produces nearly 30 percent of the world's literature in the electrical
and electronics engineering, computing and control technology
fields. This nonprofit organization also sponsors or cosponsors
more than 300 technical conferences each year. Additional information
about the IEEE can be found at http://www.ieee.org/.
IEEE 1363a,
1363, 1175.3, 1450.4, 1484.11.3, 1484.11.1, 1320.1, 1320.2 and
1517 are trademarks of the IEEE. All other names or product names
are the trademarks, service marks or registered trademarks of
their respective holders.
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