Certicom

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Certicom is a security company specialising in elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). The company was founded in 1985 by Scott Vanstone, Ron Mullin and Gordon Agnew, and spun off from the University of Waterloo. Its headquarters are in Mississauga, Canada.

Certicom holds over 130 patents in elliptic curve cryptography, and have licensed their technology to several customers, including Texas Instruments, Palm, Cisco Systems, Oracle Corporation and Motorola, and, notably, the US cryptography agency NSA in a US$25 million deal.