Fwd: [saag] NIST requests public comments on revision of FIPS 186-3 (DSS)

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Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>







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> From: Tim Polk <tim.polk@nist.gov>
> Date: 20 November 2008 01:44:14 CEST
> To: saag@ietf.org, cfrg@ietf.org
> Subject: [saag] NIST requests public comments on revision of FIPS  
> 186-3 (DSS)
>
> Folks,
>
> I though that SAAG and CFRG members might be interested in the  
> following announcement:
>
>> As stated in the November 12, 2008 Federal Register Notice, NIST  
>> requests final comments on draft FIPS 186-3, the proposed revision  
>> of FIPS 186-2, the Digital Signature Standard. The draft defines  
>> methods for digital signature generation that can be used for the  
>> protection of messages, and for the verification and validation of  
>> those digital signatures using DSA, RSA and ECDSA. Please submit  
>> comments to ebarker@nist.gov with "Comments on Draft 186-3" in the  
>> subject line. The comment period closes on December 19, 2008.
>>
>
> Most significantly, this document (if approved) will provide a  
> standard reference for the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) with  
> larger key sizes.  FIPS 186-2 limited DSA keys to 1024 bits.
>
> The Federal Register Notice is available at
>
>     http://csrc.nist.gov/fedreg/ 
> FRN_Nov12-2008_Vol73No219_FIPS186-3.pdf
>
> and the draft FIPS is available at
>
>     http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/fips_186-3/Draft_FIPS-186-3%20_November2008.pdf
>
> Any comments would be appreciated. Note the deadline of December 19,  
> 2008.  NIST hopes to resolve all public comments expeditiously, so  
> this should be considered a hard deadline.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim Polk
>
>
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