Publisher's Synopsis
This document limits its discussion of cryptographic methods to those that conform to Federal standards (FIPS) and NIST recommendations (i.e., NIST SPs). (The majority of the information in this guideline may be useful to both Federal and commercial personnel and applicable to all computer networks and environments.) Both the Federal government and industry use products that meet Federal standards and recommendations, and standards bodies such as ANSI have also adopted these documents.
