[e-lang] NIST Releases FIPS 186-3 draft - Digital Signature Standard

[Bill Frantz]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is accepting
public comments on its draft Federal Information Processing Standard
(FIPS) 186-3, Digital Signatures Standard, through June 12, 2006.  It is
designed to replace FIPS 186-2, first issued in 1994 and revised in
1999. response.  The draft defines methods for digital signature
generation that can be used for the protection of messages, and for the
verification and validation of those digital signatures. Three
techniques are allowed: DSA, RSA and ECDSA.  FIPS 186-2 permitted
512-bit and 1,024-bit cryptographic keys; FIPS 186-3 would permit
1,024-bit, 2,048-bit and 3,072-bit keys.

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts.html

Cheers - Bill

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