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  • NIST Issues Call for a New "Hash" Algorithm. NIST has opened a public competition to develop a new cryptographic “hash” algorithm, which converts a .........

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  • [June 30, 2008] -- NIST is proud to announce the release of 3 Special Publications (SP). They are: (1) SP 800-53A Guide for Assessing the Security Controls in Federal Information Systems, (2) SP 800-67 Version 1.1 Recommendation for the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA) Block Cipher, and (3) SP 800-79-1, Guidelines for the Accreditation of Personal Identity Verification Card Issuers. To learn more about these 3 documents, please click the "Read more" link below........

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  • [June 27, 2008] -- At the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) request, NIST posted the production version 1.0 of the settings for he Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC).

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  • [June 5, 2008] -- The P1619 Task Group of the Security in Storage Working Group (SISWG) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) has submitted the XTS-AES algorithm (XTS, for short) to NIST as an

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  • [May 30, 2008] -- Draft NIST Interagency Report (IR) 7502, The Common Configuration Scoring System (CCSS), is now available for public comment. This document proposes a specification for CCSS, a set of standardized......

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  • [May 6, 2008] -- Draft SP 800-123, Guide to General Server Security, is available for public comment. This document is intended to assist organizations in installing, configuring, and maintaining secure......

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  • [May 1, 2008] -- NIST announces the release of the public draft of Special Publication 800-66 Revision 1, An Introductory Resource Guide to Implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule (Draft). This Special Publication (SP), which......

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  • [May 1, 2008] -- NIST announces the release of draft Special Publication 800-108, Recommendation for Key Derivation Using Pseudorandom Functions. This Recommendation specifies......

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  • [January 25, 2008] -- Presentations from the HIPAA Security Rule Implementation and Assurance A CMS & NIST Workshop are now available.

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NIST Security Events

[Wednesday July 16, 2008] -- 9th Free FISSEA Workshop - "What's Happening?" note: Registration deadline is Monday, July 14.

U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Training Center
Dunn Loring, Virginia USA

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