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NIST starts down road toward IoT encryption — GCN

The National Institute of Standards and Technology wants comments on the best way to design criteria to evaluate new encryption standards for small computing devices.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology wants feedback on draft requirements for standardizing lightweight cryptography for internet-of-things devices. Read more.

NIST  will eventually ask researchers and cryptographers for algorithms that could be used to encrypt data on small, “constrained devices,” such as sensors, RFID tags, industrial controllers and smart cards that are being incorporated into automobiles, internet-of-things devices, the smart grid and distributed control systems.

But first the agency needs to establish the requirements and evaluation criteria that will guide the review of the algorithms.

In a May 14 Federal Register notice, NIST says its current encryption standards were designed for “general purpose computing platforms” like personal computers and tablets and have not been optimized for smaller devices that have access to less power.

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