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NIST Stages Competition to Improve Encryption Standard

Brian Robinson writes on FCW.com:

Faced with declining confidence in the decade-old encryption algorithm that has been the basis for much of the security protecting transactions on the Internet, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has begun a competition to define a new standard.

Federal Information Processing Standard 180-1 – otherwise known as Secure Hash Algorithm-1 (SHA-1) – has been widely used in government and industry since 1994. It’s the basis for the Secure Sockets Layer private-key technology that secures online information such as credit card numbers and other security technologies.

posted by Fergie @ 1/23/2007 03:28:00 PM