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NIST is requesting comments on three draft key management documents, which
are available at http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/tkkeymgmt.html.
1. "Recommendation for Key Management, Part 1: General Guideline"
provides general key management guidance for system developers and system
administrators. This is a revision of a draft provided in June, 2002.
Please submit comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by April 3, 2003.
2. "Recommendation for Key Management, Part 2: Best Practices for Key
Management Organization" provides guidance for system and application
owners for use in identifying appropriate organizational key management
infrastructures, establishing organizational key management policies, and
specifying organizational key management practices and plans. This is an
initial draft of this part of the Recommendation. Please submit comments to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] by May 2, 2003.
3. "Recommendation on Key Establishment Schemes" provides
specifications of key establishment schemes based on standards developed by
the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) X9: ANSI X9.42, Agreement
of Symmetric Keys Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography, and ANSI X9.63,
Key Agreement and Key Transport Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
Inclusion of RSA techniques as specified in ANSI X9.44, Key Establishment
Using Integer Factorization Cryptography, is planned for the future. This
draft is a revision of a draft provided in October, 2001. Please submit
comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by April 3, 2003.
Elaine Barker
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Dr., Stop 8930
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8930
Phone: 301-975-2911
Fax: 301-948-1233
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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