FIPS 198-1 announcement

[Sara Caswell <sara@nist.gov>]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is pleased to 
announce approval of Federal Information Processing Standard(FIPS) 
Publication 198-1, The Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC), a 
revision of FIPS 198. The Federal Register Notice (FRN) of the approval 
is available here. The FIPS specifies a mechanism for message 
authentication using cryptographic hash functions in Federal information 
systems.
 

URL to the Federal Register Notice:  
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips198-1/FIPS198-1_FRN.pdf

URL to the FIPS Publication 198-1:   
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsFIPS.html#FIPS%20198-1