NIST Reviews Crypto Standards Development

The National Institute for Standards and Technology has taken an important step toward repairing what the National Security Agency has allegedly fractured by initiating a review of its cryptographic standards development processes. NIST-sponsored algorithms are at the heart of numerous crypto...

NIST Refutes Allegations NSA Compromised Crypto Standards

UPDATE–The revelations last week in leaked NSA documents that the intelligence agency had influenced the standards process at NIST to allegedly deliberately weaken unnamed cryptographic algorithms have spurred a huge amount of speculation and discussion in the security community about the...