A draft of revised guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology drops a cryptographic algorithm the National Security Agency is believed to have used to circumvent encryption that ...

Following a public comment period and review, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has removed a cryptographic algorithm from its draft guidance on random number generators.

The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has revised its recommendations for methods used to generate random numbers, and formally removed an algorithm suspected to ...