Securing Sensitive Data: Understanding FIPS
August 30th, 2005
Every want to know more about the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)? ME NEITHER! Here it is.
With technologies like wireless snowballing into a cultural phenomenon we suddenly can not live without, Federal Information Processing Standards are even more important.
If you are lucky enough to not have to know what FIPS I'll share some of the pain in plain english. FIPS are all the federal documents addressing how sensitive data will be processed. Without these standards any government agency could use any kind of crypto they wanted with no regard of whether or not it is a SHA-1 that has just been cracked by the Chinese.
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