The NIST Technical Advisory Committee has published its final draft for a FIPS for the Federal Key Management Infrastructure and a letter from the chairman to the Secretary of Commerce on the completion of the task in preparation for the final meeting of the committee June 17-19: http://csrc.nist.gov/tacdfipsfkmi/ under the "June 1998" section We offer mirrors of the drafts: http://jya.com/nist-fkmi.htm (chairman's letter) http://jya.com/FIPS698.txt (the FIPS, 222K)