crypto for the average programmer

[Whyte, William]

> NIST, in its series of FIPS standards and Special Publications, has defined 
> federal standards for digital signatures and modes of operation for symmetric 
> ciphers, and is moving towards standardizing key exchange mechanisms based
> on public key algorithms. Those standards are also free, though they
> sometimes reference non-free standards.

Sorry, meant to include links for these:

Overall home page: http://csrc.nist.gov/focus_areas.html#csa

FIPS: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/index.html

Special Publications: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/

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