Proposed guidelines aim to inject badly needed common sense into password hygiene.

Here is the text of the NIST sp800-63b Digital Identity Guidelines.

  • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
    1181·
    2 months ago

    NIST generally knows what they’re doing. Want to overwrite a hard drive securely? NIST 800-88 has you covered. Need a competition for a new block cipher? NIST ran that and AES came out of it. Same for a new hash with SHA3.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      261·
      2 months ago

      NIST generally knows what they’re doing

      For now, at least. Could change after Inauguration Day.