NIST announces fifty-six (56) candidates for Round 1 of the Lightweight Cryptography (LWC) Standardization project.

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NIST is releasing Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-204, "Security Strategies for Microservices-based Application Systems." Public comments are due by April 26, 2019.

NIST has published Special Publication 800-131A Rev. 2, "Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths."

NIST announces the publication of Special Publication (SP) 800-56B Revision 2, "Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Schemes Using Integer Factorization Cryptography."

NIST has released Draft SP 800-133 Revision 1, "Recommendation for Cryptographic Key Generation," for public comment. Submit comments by May 8, 2019.

NIST announces the publication of NIST Internal Report (NISTIR) 8214, Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives.

NIST requests public comments on Draft SP 800-38G Revision 1, Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Methods for Format-Preserving Encryption. Comments are due by April 15, 2019.

NIST announces the publication of NIST Special Publication 800-177 Revision 1, "Trustworthy Email."

NIST publishes an errata update for SP 800-162, "Guide to Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) Definition and Considerations."

Draft NIST Special Publication 800-205, "Attribute Considerations for Access Control Systems," is available for public comment. Please submit comments by April 1, 2019. 

NIST currently intends to approve both LMS and XMSS stateful hash-based signature schemes, and is seeking public comments on that proposed action by April 1, 2019.

NIST publishes Internal Report (NISTIR) 8240, "Status Report on the First Round of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process"

After over a year of evaluation, NIST would like to announce the candidates that will be moving on to the 2nd round of the NIST PQC Standardization Process.

NIST has published an update to its Risk Management Framework specification, in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-37 Revision 2.

(New comments due date:  March 15, 2019) Draft Special Publication 800-189, "Secure Interdomain Traffic Exchange: BGP Robustness and DDoS Mitigation," is now available for comment. The deadline for submitting comments...

NIST has published NISTIR 8011 Volume 3, "Automation Support for Security Control Assessments: Software Asset Management."

NIST invites comments on Draft NISTIR 8196, "Security Analysis of First Responder Mobile and Wearable Devices." The public comment period closes February 6, 2019. 

(New comments due date:  February 18, 2019) The NCCoE seeks comments on Volumes A and B of Draft SP 1800-16, "Securing Web Transactions: TLS Server Certificate Management." Public comments are due by February 18,...

NIST publishes NISTIR 8200, "Status of International Cybersecurity Standardization for the Internet of Things (IoT)"

(New comments due date:  February 18, 2019) NIST releases the second draft of SP 800-57 Part 2 Revision 1, Recommendation for Key Management: Best Practices for Key Management Organizations. Public comments are due by...

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at NIST is seeking comments on a draft project description, Securing Telehealth Remote Patient Monitoring Ecosystem: Cybersecurity for the Healthcare...

The NCCoE seeks comments on Volume B ("Approach, Architecture, and Security Characteristics") of Draft SP 1800-19, Trusted Cloud: Security Practice Guide for VMWare Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS...

NIST's NCCoE has released Draft NIST Internal Report (NISTIR) 8219, "Securing Manufacturing Industrial Control Systems: Behavioral Anomaly Detection." Public comments may be submitted until December 6, 2018.

NIST invites comments on Draft Special Publication 800-179 Rev. 1, "Guide to Securing macOS 10.12 Systems for IT Professionals: A NIST Security Configuration Checklist." The public comment period is open until November 16,...