Problem in draft FIPS `CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE CALLS'

p.v.mcmahon.rea0803 at oasis.icl.co.uk p.v.mcmahon.rea0803 at oasis.icl.co.uk
Tue Aug 9 09:50:07 PDT 1994








>         someone please post to me the original "Problem in draft FIPS 
>         `CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICE CALLS'" item? (my server was down at the 

Thanks very much. I now have the mail.        


>     2.  NIST have proposed the draft FIPS to a number of standards 
>         development organisations - including X/Open and POSIX - and I 
>         know that Microsoft have reviewed it, so it will likely influence 
>         interfaces to commercially available cryptographic software and 
>         devices.
>         If there is anybody with interest in crypto APIs on this list, 
>         then your informed comments on this NIST proposal, or other 
>         candidates (which I could make available if the level of interest 
>         warranted it), or alternatives, would be useful and timely.

My interest in this is that I am chair of the X/Open security working group
defining a industry consensus specification for which the draft FIPS is one
of the inputs, along with other inputs from RSADSI (via Sun), IBM, HP,
Olivetti, SESAME etc. 

Piers







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