[Cryptography] FIPS, NIST and ITAR questions
Alexander Klimov
alserkli at inbox.ru
Tue Sep 3 12:36:22 EDT 2013
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, radix42 at gmail.com wrote:
> 1) Is there a NIST announce type list so I don't miss an entire
> standards update cycle or two again? That doesn't cover all the
> nitty gritty goings on during the journey to publication for FIPS
> updates?
<http://csrc.nist.gov/news_events/index.html>
> 2) Is anyone aware of ITAR changes for SHA hashes in recent years
> that require more than the requisite notification email to NSA for
> download URL and authorship information? Figuring this one out last
> time around took looootttttttssssss of reading.
I used to believe that hashing (unlike encryption) was not considered
arms.
--
Regards,
ASK
More information about the cryptography
mailing list