On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:09 AM, ianG <iang@iang.org> wrote:

... NIST is responsible for developing standards, guidelines, tools and metrics to protect non-national security federal information systems...

In November 2013, NIST announced it would review its cryptographic standards development process after concerns were raised about [anything NIST touched or looked at twice]

in 2014 NIST transitioned into its proper role as crypto satirist and populist punching bag. by 2020 full irrelevance is expected, with the shame of engineering fraud firmly in the past. best regards, may you live in interesting times!