[Cryptography] VCAT report on NIST's process review

ianG iang at iang.org
Mon Jul 14 19:03:34 EDT 2014


On 14/07/2014 21:51 pm, John Kelsey wrote:
> Everyone,
> 
> The VCAT (one of our oversight committees) convened a panel of experts
> to look over our interactions with NSA in our past cryptographic
> standards, including Dual EC.  For those interested in the results and
> the materials posted, they can be found at  
> 
> http://www.nist.gov/director/vcat/cryptographic-standards-guidelines-process.cfm 
> 
> and
> 
> http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/crypto-review/review_materials.html


Thanks for that.  A quick look at the slides indicates that this is a
good step forward, a way to review what went wrong.  There but for the
grace of the cryptogods go we all...

Is there audio?  I don't usually listen to audio, but this one is really
important.

iang



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