Items from security-related news (E86.Sep-2008)
Press Release: NIST Standard for Keyed Hashing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is pleased to
announce approval of Federal Information Processing Standard(FIPS)
Publication 198-1, The Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC), a
revision of FIPS 198. The Federal Register Notice (FRN) of the approval
is available here. The FIPS specifies a mechanism for message
authentication using cryptographic hash functions in Federal information
systems.
NIST revised the first drafts of Special Publication(SP) 800-106,
Randomized Hashing for Digital Signatures, and SP 800-107,
Recommendation for Applications Using Approved Hash Algorithms after
receiving great comments from many public and private individuals and
organizations. The second drafts of these two SPs have been posted at
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsDrafts.html. The deadlines for
public comments and the point-of-contact are listed with the
documents.
NIST also would like to announce that FIPS 198-1 has already been
approved and it is posted at
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips198-1/FIPS-198-1_final.pdf.
August 18, 2008, from Sara Caswell, sara@nist.gov
the FIPS Publication 198-1
Press Release: NIST Standard for Randomized Hashing
August 18, 2008, from Sara Caswell, sara@nist.gov