Research in Motion (RIM) is making a $66 million dollar hostile bid to acquire security cryptography company Certicom Corp.

Certicom provides Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), a public key cryptosystem that has been adopted by the National Security Agency for government communications and provides the most security per bit of any known public key scheme. Certicom currently licenses its solution to more than 300 customers, including RIM, General Dynamics, Motorola, Oracle and Unisys.

The acquisition comes as RIM pushes forward into more government-based enterprises both in the U.S. and abroad.

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