NIST Key Mgmt. Drafts

[Elaine Barker]

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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 GuidelineComments at nist.gov 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 
GuidelineComments at nist.gov 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 kmscomments at nist.gov 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: ebarker at nist.gov
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