17 Dec
                
                    2003
                
            
            
                17 Dec
                
                '03
                
            
            
            
        
    
                11:17 p.m.
            
        NIST announced in the Federal Register today "that the Secretary of Commerce has approved a new standard, which will be published as FIPS Publication 196, Entity Authentication Using Public Key Cryptography." http://jya.com/fips196.txt (12K)