NIST starts down road toward IoT encryption

Crypto-World - news 21.05.2019 01:37 The National Institute of Standards and Technology wants comments on the best way to design criteria to evaluate new encryption standards for small computing devices. NIST will eventually ask researchers and cryptographers for algorithms that could be used to encrypt data on small, "constrained devices," such as sensors, RFID tags, industrial controllers and smart cards that are being incorporated into automobiles, internet-of-things devices, the smart grid and distributed control systems. But first the agency needs to establish the requirements and evaluation criteria that will guide the review of the algorithms.