-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <3287ki$5aq@news.hal.COM> p.v.mcmahon.rea0803@oasis.icl.co.uk writes: 2. NIST have proposed the draft FIPS to a number of standards development organisations - including X/Open and POSIX' I can personally guarantee that NIST has *not* proposed their draft FIPS to POSIX. I've attended every POSIX meeting since mid-'88; I chair the PASC management subcommittee which sees every proposal for new work. What probably *did* happen was that the POSIX working group developing a security framework received a copy of the draft FIPS to use in their work. This committee isn't producing APIs of any sort, nor is it producing a standard; their document is classed as a Guide, not a Standard. I can also state that PASC (the sponsoring body for POSIX) has created a Study Group on encryption APIs; the announcement is attached below. I am also the official contact for the study group. Jason Zions Chair, IEEE 1003.8 POSIX Transparent File Access Convenor, PASC Encryption Services API Study Group IEEE PASC Study group on encryption interfaces and system services The PASC (Portable Applications Standards Committee) group will be hosting a study group on API's for Encryption services as an extension to the POSIX standards. The meetings on this will be held at the Sea-Tac Red Lion Inn, Seattle, WA, Oct. 17th and 18th in conjunction with the quarterly PASC meetings. There is a meeting fee of $100/day or $350 for the week that includes lunches. The contact for this work is Jason Zions who can be reached at: jazz@hal.com. A general meeting announcement is available on request from NAPS International who can be reached at ++(612) 888-0074 or tc@bungia.mn.org The study group will investigate the feasibility of developing IEEE and ISO standards for both command line and application program interfaces to encryption services. Encryption services are expected to include basic encryption, public/private key encryption, digital signatures and digital cash. The PASC study group would like to invite broad participation from interested parties consisting of private individuals, industry, government, users and producers. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAgUBLku7Sh9D05Qo3c9BAQE4hwP/dRlqYGFCkZAfVeeWn0iROMIQIeISOnAS PjWohoAPtcDtF7ZJXIhLw2uavUdOXHNkKL0mu/sy+GzPIubDh+LDKOGd2u52mxTb Sr0wSPLdEL8JTtacKJD7mt4YxEnN9MN8xhgMQiERdi6uAhffIJ2V88Q19vaOrPoO YpxDqKjMKKE= =38Ct -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- (Phone calls only for verifying PGP key: 512-834-9962 x5316)