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Guideline for Using Cryptographic Standards in the Federal Government: Cryptographic Mechanisms
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Date Published: August 2016
Supersedes:
SP 800-21 E2 (12/01/2005)
Author(s)
Elaine Barker (NIST)
This document is intended to provide guidance to the Federal Government for using cryptography and NIST’s cryptographic standards to protect sensitive, but unclassified digitized information during transmission and while in storage. The cryptographic methods and services to be used are discussed.
This document is intended to provide guidance to the Federal Government for using cryptography and NIST’s cryptographic standards to protect sensitive, but unclassified digitized information during transmission and while in storage. The cryptographic methods and services to be used are discussed.
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This document is intended to provide guidance to the Federal Government for using cryptography and NIST’s cryptographic standards to protect sensitive, but unclassified digitized information during transmission and while in storage. The cryptographic methods and services to be used are discussed.
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Keywords
authentication; confidentiality; cryptography; digital signatures; encryption; integrity; key agreement; key derivation; key management; key transport; key wrapping; message authentication codes; non-repudiation; Public Key Infrastructure; random bit generation; asymmetric-key algorithm; symmetric-key algorithm
Control Families
Identification and Authentication; System and Communications Protection; System and Information Integrity
