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Proposed Withdrawal of FIPS 198-1 (HMAC)
June 23, 2025
Federal Register Number: 2025-11497

NIST's proposal to withdraw Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 198-1, HMAC, has been announced in the Federal Register. Comments are due July 23, 2025.

HMAC Specification: Draft SP 800-224
June 28, 2024

The initial public draft (ipd) of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-224. The public comment period is open through September 6, 2024.

NIST to Withdraw Special Publication 800-67 Revision 2
June 29, 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The specification of the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA), NIST SP 800-67 Rev. 2, will be withdrawn January 1, 2024.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.

NIST IR 8454: Status Report of Lightweight Cryptography Final Round
June 16, 2023

NIST has published NIST Internal Report 8454, Status Report on the Final Round of the NIST Lightweight Cryptography Standardization Process. The announcement of NIST's decision to standardize the ASCON family was announced on February 7, 2023.

Decision to Convert FIPS 198-1 to a NIST Special Publication
November 4, 2022

After considering two rounds of public comments, NIST has decided to convert FIPS 198-1, "The Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC)" to a NIST Special Publication.

Proposal to Convert FIPS 198-1 to a NIST SP
September 20, 2022

NIST's Crypto Publication Review Board proposes to convert FIPS 198-1, the HMAC standard, to a NIST Special Publication. The public comment period closes October 20, 2022.

NISTIR 8369: Lightweight Cryptography Second Round Report
July 21, 2021

NISTIR 8369 describes the evaluation process and selection process used during the second round of the NIST Lightweight Cryptography Standardization Process. Ten finalists were announced in March 2021.

NIST Revises Guide to IPsec VPNs: SP 800-77 Rev 1
June 30, 2020

NIST has published Special Publication 800-77 Revision 1, "Guide to IPsec VPNs"

NIST Releases Draft SP 800-77 Rev. 1 for Comment
July 2, 2019

NIST has released Draft Special Publication 800-77 Revision 1 for public comment. The comment period is open until October 8, 2019.

Announcing Approval of the Withdrawal of Ten FIPS
September 2, 2008
Federal Register Number: E8-20138

The Secretary of Commerce has approved the withdrawal of ten Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), including FIPS 113, Computer Data Authentication.