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Recent News

Draft Ransomware Risk Management CSF 2.0 Profile January 13, 2025
The NCCoE has posted an intial public draft of NIST Internal Report 8374r1, "Ransomware Risk Management: A Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 Community Profile," for comment. The public comment period is open through March 14,...
Draft SP 800-227 is Available for Comment January 7, 2025
The initial public draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-227, Recommendations for Key-Encapsulation Mechanisms, is now available for public comment. The public comment period is open through March 7, 2025.
Pre-Draft Call for Comments on GCM and GMAC January 6, 2025
NIST requests public comments on whether to pursue one or both approaches  (GCM and GMAC).The public comment period closes on March 14, 2025. 
NIST Releases Public Draft of SP 800-189 Rev 1 January 3, 2025
NIST has released the initial public draft (IPD) of Revision 1 of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-189, Border Gateway Protocol Security and Resilience. The public comment period ends February 25, 2025.
NIST Proposes to Standardize a Wider Variant of AES December 24, 2024
NIST indicated its interest in vetting another Rijndael variant for approval: Rijndael with 256-bit blocks (i.e., Rijndael-256) with a single key size of 256-bits. NIST plans to develop a draft standard for Rijndael-256 over...

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Upcoming Events

NIST Workshop on Guidance for KEMs February 25, 2025 - February 26, 2025
Read the Code of Conduct for NIST Meetings Call for Submissions (submission deadline January 28, 2025) The initial public draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-227, Recommendations for Key-Encapsulation Mechanisms, is...

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