Wednesday, 11. September 2013
Topic: SECURITY - on September 11, 2013 at 3:11:00 PM CEST
Government Announces Steps to Restore Confidence on Encryption Standards
The federal agency charged with recommending cybersecurity standards said Tuesday that it would reopen the public vetting process for an encryption standard, after reports that the National Security Agency had written the standard and could break it.
“We want to assure the I.T. cybersecurity community that the transparent, public process used to rigorously vet our standards is still in place,” The National Institute of Standards and Technology said in a public statement. “N.I.S.T. would not deliberately weaken a cryptographic standard.”
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