NIST Releases FIPS 186-3 Draft for Comment

Via GCN.com -

A new version of the federal standard for digital signatures would add the RSA algorithm to the list of approved algorithms, increase the key sizes allowed for the original Digital Signature Algorithm and adds requirements for using an approved elliptic curve algorithm.

The changes are included in the most recent draft of Federal Information Processing Standard 186-3, Digital Signature Standard, which has been released for comment by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

This is the second draft of FIPS 186-3, which will replace the current standard, FIPS 186-2. The first draft was released for public comment in 2006, and NIST has incorporated suggestions and corrections made in those comments in the current release. Comments are due by Dec. 12.