Fw: Revisions to NIST Special Publications

[Steven M. Bellovin]

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From: Elaine Barker <elaine.barker at nist.gov>
To: ebarker at nist.gov
Subject: Revisions to NIST Special Publications
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:50:10 -0400
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Revisions have been made to the following NIST Special Publications,
which are available at
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/index.html:

1.   SP 800-56A, Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment
Schemes Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography. This revised document
is also available at http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/tkkeymgmt.html.
The revision to this document is identified in Appendix E. It allows
the dual use of keys during certificate requests only.

2.   SP 800-57, Part 1, Recommendation for Key Management. This
revised document is also available at
http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/tkkeymgmt.html. The revisions
to this document are listed in Appendix D. The latest revisions
allow the dual use of keys during certificate requests only.

3.   SP 800-90, Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using
Deterministic Random Bit Generators. This revised document is also
available at http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/tkrng.html. The
revisions to this document are listed in Appendix I. These revisions
include the insertion of a step in the  Dual_EC_DRBG specification
that was inadvertently omitted that is needed for the DRBG to
provide backtracking resistance.

Elaine Barker
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8930
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8930
301-975-2911

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