MISC> NIST Key Mgmt. Drafts

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Reminder:

NIST is requesting comments on three draft key management documents that
were posted in January. The end of the comment period on two of those
drafts is April 3 (next week). If you have not seen those drafts, they are
available at http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/tkkeymgmt.html.

1. "Recommendation for Key Management, Part 1: General Guideline" provides
general key management guidance for system developers and system
administrators. This is a revision of a draft provided in June, 2002.
Please submit comments to GuidelineComments@xxxxxxxx by April 3, 2003.

2. "Recommendation on Key Establishment Schemes" provides specifications of
key establishment schemes based on standards developed by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI) X9: ANSI X9.42, Agreement of Symmetric
Keys Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography, and ANSI X9.63, Key Agreement
and Key Transport Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Inclusion of RSA
techniques as specified in ANSI X9.44, Key Establishment Using Integer
Factorization Cryptography, is planned for the future. This draft is a
revision of a draft provided in October, 2001.

Please submit comments to kmscomments@xxxxxxxx by April 3, 2003.

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