The purpose of this notice is to announce that the Secretary of Commerce has approved the withdrawal of thirty-three Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publications.

The Secretary of Commerce approved Federal Information Processing Standard 186-2, Digital Signature Standard (DSS), which supersedes Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 186-1, …

NIST solicits public comments on Draft Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2, Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules

NIST announces a workshop to examine public key-based management techniques as specified in ANSI X9.42, X9.44, and X9.63. It will be held at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland on February 10-11, 2000.

This notice announces the beginning of the Round 2 technical evaluation period for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) finalists, and solicits public comments on the finalists. Public comments for Round 2 are due May 15,...

NIST proposes the reaffirmation of Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-1, Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules

This notice solicits comments on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) candidate algorithms from the public, and academic and research communities, manufacturers, voluntary standards organizations, and Federal, state, and...

NIST requests nominations of candidate algorithms for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).

NIST is planning to develop a Federal Information Processing Standard for Public-Key Based Cryptographic Key Agreement and Exchange. This notice solicits comments regarding techniques for consideration specifically including...

NIST initiates development of a FIPS for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). This announces draft minimum algorithm requirements, draft submission requirements, and draft evaluation criteria. An initial workshop is...

A revision of Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 180, Secure Hash Standard (SHS), is being proposed. This proposed revision corrects a technical flaw that made the standard less secure than had been thought.

This notice announces that Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 46-1, Data Encryption Standard, has been revised and that the Data Encryption Algorithm specified by the standard has been reaffirmed for five years.

This notice announces the review of FIPS 46-1, Data Encryption Standard (DES), inviting comments on potential costs and benefits of reaffirmation, withdrawal, or revision.

This Federal Register Notice was NBS/NIST's initial solicitation for developing a public standard for encryption. The end result of this multi-year effort was the issuance of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) in 1977 as FIPS...

This FRN redesignated fourteen Federal Telecomm Standards (FED-STD) as FIPS, including FED-STDs 1026, 1027, and 1028, which became FIPS 139, 140, and 141, respectively.