diff --git a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/Cipher.h b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/Cipher.h
index 05bb9e3ae..fbe0c30ae 100644
--- a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/Cipher.h
+++ b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/Cipher.h
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class CryptoTransform;
 
 class Crypto_API Cipher: public Poco::RefCountedObject
 	/// Represents the abstract base class from which all implementations of
-	/// symmetric/assymetric encryption algorithms must inherit.  Use the CipherFactory
+	/// symmetric/asymmetric encryption algorithms must inherit.  Use the CipherFactory
 	/// class to obtain an instance of this class:
 	///
 	///     CipherFactory& factory = CipherFactory::defaultFactory();
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ class Crypto_API Cipher: public Poco::RefCountedObject
 	/// decrypt strings or, in conjunction with a CryptoInputStream or a
 	/// CryptoOutputStream, to encrypt streams of data.
 	///
-	/// Since encrypted strings will contain arbitary binary data that will cause
+	/// Since encrypted strings will contain arbitrary binary data that will cause
 	/// problems in applications that are not binary-safe (eg., when sending
 	/// encrypted data in e-mails), the encryptString() and decryptString() can
 	/// encode (or decode, respectively) encrypted data using a "transport encoding".
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ public:
 		/// Returns the name of the Cipher.
 
 	virtual CryptoTransform* createEncryptor() = 0;
-		/// Creates an encrytor object to be used with a CryptoStream.
+		/// Creates an encryptor object to be used with a CryptoStream.
 
 	virtual CryptoTransform* createDecryptor() = 0;
 		/// Creates a decryptor object to be used with a CryptoStream.
diff --git a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/CipherImpl.h b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/CipherImpl.h
index 905b9287b..d6e8e0e79 100644
--- a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/CipherImpl.h
+++ b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/CipherImpl.h
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ public:
 		/// Returns the name of the cipher.
 
 	CryptoTransform* createEncryptor();
-		/// Creates an encrytor object.
+		/// Creates an encryptor object.
 
 	CryptoTransform* createDecryptor();
-		/// Creates a decrytor object.
+		/// Creates a decryptor object.
 
 private:
 	CipherKey _key;
diff --git a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/CipherKey.h b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/CipherKey.h
index 6b1ad36bc..b102cc231 100644
--- a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/CipherKey.h
+++ b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/CipherKey.h
@@ -45,6 +45,16 @@ class Crypto_API CipherKey
 	///     std::string salt("asdff8723lasdf(**923412");
 	///     CipherKey key("aes-256", password, salt);
 	///
+	/// You may also control the digest and the number of iterations used to generate the key
+	/// by specifying the specific values. Here we create a key with the same data as before,
+	/// except that we use 100 iterations instead of DEFAULT_ITERATION_COUNT, and sha1 instead of
+	/// the default md5:
+	///
+	///     std::string password = "secret";
+	///     std::string salt("asdff8723lasdf(**923412");
+	///     std::string digest ("sha1");
+	///     CipherKey key("aes-256", password, salt, 100, digest);
+	///
 {
 public:
 	typedef CipherKeyImpl::Mode Mode;
@@ -64,7 +74,7 @@ public:
 		int iterationCount = DEFAULT_ITERATION_COUNT,
 		const std::string& digest = "md5");
 		/// Creates a new CipherKeyImpl object using the given
-		/// cipher name, passphrase, salt value and iteration count.
+		/// cipher name, passphrase, salt value, iteration count and digest.
 
 	CipherKey(const std::string& name, 
 		const ByteVec& key, 
diff --git a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/CryptoException.h b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/CryptoException.h
index 93a05a985..34c15111e 100644
--- a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/CryptoException.h
+++ b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/CryptoException.h
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 
 #include "Poco/Crypto/Crypto.h"
 #include "Poco/Exception.h"
-#include <openssl/err.h>
 
 
 namespace Poco {
diff --git a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/ECKey.h b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/ECKey.h
index 3a0307d32..14f2ac0a1 100644
--- a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/ECKey.h
+++ b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/ECKey.h
@@ -88,6 +88,16 @@ public:
 		///
 		/// If no curves are found, returns empty string;
 
+	static int getCurveNID(std::string& name);
+		/// Returns the NID of the specified curve.
+		///
+		/// If name is empty, returns the first curve NID
+		/// and updates the name accordingly.
+
+	static bool hasCurve(const std::string& name);
+		/// Returns true if the named curve is found,
+		/// false otherwise.
+
 private:
 	ECKeyImpl::Ptr _pImpl;
 };
@@ -108,6 +118,18 @@ inline std::string ECKey::getCurveName(int nid)
 }
 
 
+inline int ECKey::getCurveNID(std::string& name)
+{
+	return ECKeyImpl::getCurveNID(name);
+}
+
+
+inline bool ECKey::hasCurve(const std::string& name)
+{
+	return ECKeyImpl::hasCurve(name);
+}
+
+
 } } // namespace Poco::Crypto
 
 
diff --git a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/ECKeyImpl.h b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/ECKeyImpl.h
index f20c0e1d1..840764304 100644
--- a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/ECKeyImpl.h
+++ b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/ECKeyImpl.h
@@ -113,6 +113,16 @@ public:
 		///
 		/// If no curves are found, returns empty string;
 
+	static int getCurveNID(std::string& name);
+		/// Returns the NID of the specified curve.
+		///
+		/// If name is empty, returns the first curve NID
+		/// and updates the name accordingly.
+
+	static bool hasCurve(const std::string& name);
+		/// Returns true if the named curve is found,
+		/// false otherwise.
+
 private:
 	void checkEC(const std::string& method, const std::string& func) const;
 	void freeEC();
diff --git a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/EVPPKey.h b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/EVPPKey.h
index dacb57de4..fbcdad5b1 100644
--- a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/EVPPKey.h
+++ b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/EVPPKey.h
@@ -282,6 +282,7 @@ private:
 	friend class RSAKeyImpl;
 };
 
+
 //
 // inlines
 //
@@ -314,6 +315,7 @@ inline int EVPPKey::type() const
 	return type(_pEVPPKey);
 }
 
+
 inline bool EVPPKey::isSupported(int type) const
 {
 	return type == EVP_PKEY_EC || type == EVP_PKEY_RSA;
diff --git a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/RSACipherImpl.h b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/RSACipherImpl.h
index daa951831..2ebc38e3b 100644
--- a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/RSACipherImpl.h
+++ b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/RSACipherImpl.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ namespace Crypto {
 
 class RSACipherImpl: public Cipher
 	/// An implementation of the Cipher class for 
-	/// assymetric (public-private key) encryption
+	/// asymmetric (public-private key) encryption
 	/// based on the the RSA algorithm in OpenSSL's 
 	/// crypto library.
 	///
@@ -50,10 +50,10 @@ public:
 		/// Returns the name of the Cipher.
 	
 	CryptoTransform* createEncryptor();
-		/// Creates an encrytor object.
+		/// Creates an encryptor object.
 
 	CryptoTransform* createDecryptor();
-		/// Creates a decrytor object.
+		/// Creates a decryptor object.
 
 private:
 	RSAKey _key;
diff --git a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/RSADigestEngine.h b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/RSADigestEngine.h
index 5e4b5240a..7c4d38605 100644
--- a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/RSADigestEngine.h
+++ b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/RSADigestEngine.h
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ public:
 
 	const DigestEngine::Digest& signature();
 		/// Signs the digest using the RSA algorithm
-		/// and the private key (teh first time it's
+		/// and the private key (the first time it's
 		/// called) and returns the result.
 		///
 		/// Can be called multiple times.
diff --git a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/X509Certificate.h b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/X509Certificate.h
index 9ef4a614b..412e88eec 100644
--- a/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/X509Certificate.h
+++ b/Crypto/include/Poco/Crypto/X509Certificate.h
@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ private:
 // inlines
 //
 
+
 inline long X509Certificate::version() const
 {
 	// This is defined by standards (X.509 et al) to be
diff --git a/Crypto/src/CryptoException.cpp b/Crypto/src/CryptoException.cpp
index 56fd92824..a4450af9b 100644
--- a/Crypto/src/CryptoException.cpp
+++ b/Crypto/src/CryptoException.cpp
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include "Poco/Crypto/CryptoException.h"
 #include "Poco/NumberFormatter.h"
 #include <typeinfo>
+#include <openssl/err.h>
 
 
 namespace Poco {
diff --git a/Crypto/src/ECKeyImpl.cpp b/Crypto/src/ECKeyImpl.cpp
index 8acc005e8..99ffae760 100644
--- a/Crypto/src/ECKeyImpl.cpp
+++ b/Crypto/src/ECKeyImpl.cpp
@@ -205,4 +205,54 @@ std::string ECKeyImpl::getCurveName(int nid)
 }
 
 
+int ECKeyImpl::getCurveNID(std::string& name)
+{
+	std::string curveName;
+	size_t len = EC_get_builtin_curves(NULL, 0);
+	EC_builtin_curve* pCurves =
+		(EC_builtin_curve*)OPENSSL_malloc(static_cast<int>(sizeof(EC_builtin_curve) * len));
+	if (!pCurves) return -1;
+
+	if (!EC_get_builtin_curves(pCurves, len))
+	{
+		OPENSSL_free(pCurves);
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	int nid = -1;
+	const int bufLen = 128;
+	char buf[bufLen];
+	if (name.empty())
+	{
+		std::memset(buf, 0, bufLen);
+		OBJ_obj2txt(buf, bufLen, OBJ_nid2obj(nid), 0);
+		name = buf;
+		nid = pCurves[0].nid;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		for (int i = 0; i < len; ++i)
+		{
+			std::memset(buf, 0, bufLen);
+			OBJ_obj2txt(buf, bufLen, OBJ_nid2obj(pCurves[i].nid), 0);
+			if (strncmp(name.c_str(), buf, name.size() > bufLen ? bufLen : name.size()) == 0)
+			{
+				nid = pCurves[i].nid;
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	OPENSSL_free(pCurves);
+	return nid;
+}
+
+
+bool ECKeyImpl::hasCurve(const std::string& name)
+{
+	std::string tmp(name);
+	return (-1 != getCurveNID(tmp));
+}
+
+
 } } // namespace Poco::Crypto