November 8, 2008,
New prize, Gordon Essay
11/08/08
Lawrence A. Gordon, Ph.D. ( http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/lgordon/ ) wrote:
Several months ago I made a decision to endow a Prize for the best
essay on the topic of "Managing Cybersecurity Resources." The story,
including the process by which one can apply for the Prize, can now be
found at:
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/news/stories/2008/gordonprize.aspx . My
commitment to endow the Prize is part of the University of Maryland's
(and the Smith Business School's) Great Expectations Campaign. My
initial commitment is for $25K, the goal is to get the total Endowment
for the Prize up to $100K.
November 8, 2008,
NIST Pub 800-180
NIST request for comments
Dear Colleagues:
NIST
Special Publication 800-108 Recommendation
for Key Derivation Using Pseudorandom Functions is
published at this url. Thank you very much for your valuable comments during public
comments period.
Regards,
Lily Chen
November 8, 2008,
NIST Pub 800-180, NIST request for comments
As stated in the Federal
Register of November 12, 2008, NIST requests final comments on
FIPS 186-3, the proposed revision of FIPS 186-2, the Digital
Signature Standard. The draft defines methods for digital signature
generation that can be used for the protection of messages, and for the
verification and validation of those digital signatures using DSA, RSA
and ECDSA.
Please submit comments to
ebarker@nist.gov with
"Comments on Draft 186-3" in the subject line. The comment
period closes on December 12, 2008.