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NIST announces the completion of Special Publication (SP) 800-130, A Framework for Designing Cryptographic Key Management Systems. This publication contains a description of the topics to be considered and the documentation requirements to be addressed when designing a CKMS. The CKMS designer satisfies ...

NIST is pleased to announce the approval of FIPS 186-4, the Digital Signature Standard. This Standard specifies three techniques for the generation and verification of digital signatures that can be used for the protection of data: DSA, ECDSA and RSA. This revision includes a clarification of terms, ...

NIST is in the process of adjudicating all comments received during the SP 800-90B and SP 800-90C public comment period. In doing so, it has been determined that the concept of full entropy as used in these Special Publications only serves to confuse the entropy discussion. For example, since true full ...

Could you please send out the following to your email lists? Thanks. NIST announces the completion of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-133, Recommendation for Cryptographic Key Generation. This Recommendation discusses the generation of the keys to be used with NIST-approved cryptographic algorithms. ...

Random Bit Generation Workshop December 5-6, 2012 NIST ? Gaithersburg, Maryland NIST is planning a workshop on December 5-6, 2012 to discuss the development and validation of Random Bit Generators (RBGs). Attendees are asked to provide topics/issues that they would like to see addressed. NIST will add ...