Revisions to NIST Special Publications

[Sara Caswell <sara@nist.gov>]

Revisions have been made to the following NIST Special Publications, 
which are available at 
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/index.html:


1.   SP 800-56A, Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Schemes 
Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography. This revised document is also 
available at http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/tkkeymgmt.html. The 
revision to this document is identified in Appendix E. It allows the 
dual use of keys during certificate requests only.

2.   SP 800-57, Part 1, Recommendation for Key Management. This revised 
document is also available at 
http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/tkkeymgmt.html. The revisions to this 
document are listed in Appendix D. The latest revisions allow the dual 
use of keys during certificate requests only.

3.   SP 800-90, Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using 
Deterministic Random Bit Generators. This revised document is also 
available at http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/tkrng.html. The 
revisions to this document are listed in Appendix I. These revisions 
include the insertion of a step in the  Dual_EC_DRBG specification that 
was inadvertently omitted that is needed for the DRBG to provide 
backtracking resistance.