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Securing Sensitive Data: Understanding Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)
Securing Sensitive Data: Understanding Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) (PDF, 1.87MB)Published: 30 Jul, 2002
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Thomas Kenworthy
Protecting sensitive data is especially important in today's high threat terrorist environment. This paper will define FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards), identify FIPS approved encryption algorithms, and examine some different vendor solutions and their use of these approved algorithms.