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NIST SP 800-131C (Initial Public Draft)

Transitions: Validating the Transition from FIPS 186-2 to FIPS 186-3

Date Published: February 2011
Comments Due: March 31, 2011 (public comment period is CLOSED)
Email Questions to: CryptoTransitions@nist.gov

Planning Note (04/23/2012): The guidance from this draft was moved to FIPS 140-1 Implementation Guidance W.2.

Announcement

NIST requests comments on Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-131C, Transitions: Validating the Transition from FIPS 186-2 to FIPS 186-3. SP 800-131C addresses both the cryptographic algorithm validations and the cryptographic module validations that are conducted by NIST’s Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP) and the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP), respectively.

Abstract

Keywords

Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP); Digital Signature Standard; Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP); validation testing.
Control Families

None selected

Documentation

Publication:
Draft NIST SP 800-131C (pdf)

Supplemental Material:
Comments on Draft SP 800-131C (pdf)

Related NIST Publications:
SP 800-131B (Draft)

Document History:
02/10/11: SP 800-131C (Draft)

Topics

Security and Privacy

digital signatures, testing & validation