July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
11h 10m
English
The process of becoming a fully approved FIPS is fairly arduous and time-consuming, so it is often useful to reference draft FIPS or draft revisions of FIPS. Further information on the approval process for FIPS is available through
http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/
FIPS are numbered. A revision causes the addition of a hyphen and revision number. For example, FIPS 186 is the Digital Signature Standard; after two revisions, its latest version is [FIPS 186-2], which replaces all previous versions. (DSS/DSA is still commonly used to refer to the original U.S. government-devised signature algorithm, although later versions of FIPS 186 have added other signature algorithms, thus permitting their use by U.S. government ...
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