News & Updates

After receiving public comments in response to its July 2025 proposal, NIST has decided to update SP 800-56Ar3 and revise SP 800-56Cr2.

The initial public draft of NIST IR 8587, "Protecting Tokens and Assertions from Forgery, Theft, and Misuse: Implementation Recommendations for Agencies and Cloud Service Providers," is now available for public comment through January 30, 2026.

The initial public draft of NIST SP 800-57 Part 1 Revision 6, "Recommendation for Key Management: Part 1– General," is available for public comment through February 5, 2026.

This publication describes the basic definitions, properties, and applications of KEMs and provides recommendations for implementing and using KEMs securely.

The final release of Special Publication 1800-37, Addressing Visibility Challenges with TLS 1.3 within the Enterprise, is now available.

NIST's Crypto Publication Review Board proposes to update Special Publication 800-56A and revise SP 800-56C. Submit public comments through Monday, September 15, 2025.

NIST's Crypto Publication Review Board invites comments on parts 2 and 3 of Special Publication (SP) 800-57, "Recommendation for Key Management."

HQC Announced as a 4th Round Selection. NIST Internal Report (IR) 8545 details the evaluation criteria, algorithm designs, and reasoning behind the selection.

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.

NIST's Crypto Publication Review Board has requested initial public comments on NIST Special Publications (SP) 800-56A, 800-56B, and 800-56C, in the "Recommendations for Key Establishment" subseries. The comment period is open through January 31, 2025.

NIST has released an initial public draft (ipd) revision of Special Publication (SP) 800-131A, Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Length The public comment period is open through December 4, 2024.

After two public comment periods, NIST has decided to revise Special Publication 800-135 Rev. 1, "Recommendation for Existing Application-Specific Key Derivation Functions."

The Secretary of Commerce has approved three Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) for post-quantum cryptography: FIPS 203, 204 and 205.

NIST's Crypto Publication Review Board is proposing to revise Special Publication (SP) 800-135 Revision 1, "Recommendation for Existing Application-Specific Key Derivation Functions." Submit public comments through Friday, June 14, 2024.

Volumes A (2nd preliminary draft) and B (initial prelim. draft) of NIST Special Publication 1800-37, Addressing Visibility Challenges with TLS 1.3 within the Enterprise, are available for public comment through April 1, 2024.

NIST requests comments on the initial public drafts of three Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) - FIPS 203, 204 and 205. The deadline to submit comments is November 22, 2023.

NIST is reviewing Special Publication 800-135 Revision 1 and requesting public comments by September 27, 2023.

The specification of the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA), NIST SP 800-67 Rev. 2, will be withdrawn January 1, 2024. The algorithm will be disallowed for applying cryptographic protection but will continue to be allowed for processing already-protected data.

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) invites you to share your feedback on the preliminary draft of NIST Special Publication 1800-37 Volume A, Addressing Visibility Challenges with TLS 1.3.

NIST has decided to revise SP 800-132, "Recommendation for Password-Based Key Derivation – Part 1: Storage Applications." Read this announcement for more details.

NIST is proposing to revise NIST Special Publication 800-132. Please submit public comments by May 1, 2023.

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a draft report, NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8320D, Hardware Enabled Security: Hardware-Based Confidential Computing, for public comment.

NIST is currently reviewing SP 800-132, "Recommendation for Password-Based Key Derivation: Part 1: Storage Applications," (2010) and is requesting public feedback on all aspects of the publication by February 24, 2023.

NIST is pleased to announce the release of Special Publication (SP) 800-108r1, Recommendation for Key Derivation Using Pseudorandom Functions.

NIST is announcing four Post-Quantum Cryptography candidates for standardization, plus candidates for a fourth round of analysis.