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NIST Computer Security Division released a paper "The Role of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Mobile Security".
- [Sept. 18, 2012] -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announces the release of the final version of its updated risk assessment guideline, Special Publication 800-30, Revision 1, Guide for Conducting Risk Assessments. The publication, over eighteen months in the making, represents the fifth in the series of publications developed by the Joint Task Force—a partnership among.....
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- [Sept. 18, 2012] -- NIST Interagency Report (IR) 7874, Guidelines for Access Control System Evaluation Metrics, has been released as final. This report provides Federal agencies with background information on.....
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- [Sept. 6, 2012] -- NIST announces the release of Draft Special Publication 800-88 Revision 1, Guidelines for Media Sanitization for public review and comment. SP 800-88 discussed.....
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- [Sept. 5, 2012] -- NIST announces the public comment release of draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-40 Revision 3, Guide to Enterprise Patch Management Technologies. Patch management is the process for.....
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- [Sept. 5, 2012] -- NIST requests comments on two Draft publications for random bit generation: Draft SP 800-90B, Recommendation for the Entropy Sources Used for Random Bit Generation and Draft SP 800-90C, Recommendation for Random Bit Generator (RBG) Constructions. These 2 drafts.......
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- [Aug. 30, 2012] -- NIST seeks additional comments (Federal Register Notice released August 30, 2012) on specific sections of FIP Standard 140-3 (Second Draft), Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules, to clarify.....
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- [Aug. 23, 2012] -- Earlier this year the President signed a Memorandum issuing the Digital Government Strategy, which was designed to build a 21st Century digital government that delivers.....
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- [Aug. 24, 2012] -- NIST announces the release of Special Publication 800-107, Revision 1, Recommendation for Using Approved Hash Algorithms. In this revision, the security properties of SHA-512/224 and.....
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- [Aug. 20, 2012] -- NIST announces the public comment release of Special Publication 800-56A (Revision) DRAFT of Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Schemes Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography.
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- [Aug. 9, 2012] -- NIST is developing a Special Publication (SP 800-152) that will be entitled “A Profile for U. S. Federal Cryptographic Key Management Systems (CKMS)”. This Profile will be based on......
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