NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsFIPS.html http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/by-num.htm http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cavp/documents/dss/ecdsaval.html http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips186-3/fips_186-3.pdf SECG The Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group: http://www.secg.org/ http://www.secg.org/?action=secg,docs_secg IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1363/ http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1363/P1363/index.html X9 Accredited Standards Committee Financial Industry Standards http://www.x9.org/home http://www.x9.org/standards/free/TG26_1999.pdf