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• December 15 -- Announcement of new Digital Signature Standard FIPS 186-1 (in .pdf format) allows for use of RSA digital signatures, as specified in ANSI x9.31.

• December 9 -- NIST Special Publication 800-18, Guide for Developing Security Plans for Information Technology Systems is now available. (Electronic version is available in .PDF and Microsoft Word '97 format.) Click link above to go to NIST's publications page to download the planguide document.

• October 19 -- History of Computer Security Project: Early Papers

• Common Criteria for IT Security Evaluation (CC) version 2.0 now completed

• SKIPJACK and KEA Algorithms Declassified