š **Certicom and the Standardization of SEC\,2**
The secp256k1 parameters were published in SEC 2 (*Standards for Efficient Cryptography 2*) in September 2000 by the Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group (SECG), an industry consortium led by Certicom Corporation. Certicom, founded in 1985 by Scott Vanstone at the University of Waterloo, was the world's leading ECC company. They held over 350 patents related to elliptic curve cryptography and worked to make ECC commercially viable when the world still ran on RSA.ā¦
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