Date Published: August 2016
Supersedes: SP 800-21 Second edition (December 2005)
Author(s)
Elaine Barker (NIST)
This document is intended to provide guidance to the Federal Government for using cryptography and NIST’s cryptographic standards to protect sensitive, but unclassified digitized information during transmission and while in storage. The cryptographic methods and services to be used are discussed.
This document is intended to provide guidance to the Federal Government for using cryptography and NIST’s cryptographic standards to protect sensitive, but unclassified digitized information during transmission and while in storage. The cryptographic methods and services to be used are discussed.
Keywords
asymmetric-key algorithm; authentication; confidentiality; cryptography; digital signatures; encryption; integrity; key agreement; key derivation; key management; key transport; key wrapping; message authentication codes; non-repudiation; Public Key Infrastructure; random bit generation; symmetric-key algorithm
Control Families
Identification and Authentication;
System and Communications Protection;
System and Information Integrity;