Editor’s Note: NIST’s consensus standards process is the global benchmark for standards development processes. Since education can alleviate unwarranted fear, the document found here may be useful to readers in better understanding the federal consensus standards process. The CRE standards paper has been cited by the IEEE, the European Commission and other academicians.
From: GovInfoSecurity
By Eric Chabrow
A group of noted cryptographers, academics and business leaders will provide an independent assessment of the way the National Institute of Standards and Technology develops cryptographic standards and guidelines.
NIST in February issued a draft report proposing changes in the way it develops cryptographic standards, following allegations that the National Security Agency meddled with NIST guidance dealing with generation of random bits (see NIST Unveils Crypto Standards Proposal ).
The Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology, NIST’s primary advisory committee known as VCAT, on May 14 named seven prominent individuals to a Committee of Visitors to examine Interagency Report 7977, NIST Cryptographic Standards and Guidelines Development Process, which proposes revisions of how NIST develops cryptographic standards.
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