What is Federal Information Processing Standards?
'''Federal Information Processing Standards''' ('''FIPS''') are [[Standardization|standards]] made by the [[Federal government of the United States]] for non-military [[government agency|government agencies]] and by government [[contractor]]s to use, and they are announced to the [[public]]. Many FIPS standards are modified versions of standards used in the wider community ([[American National Standards Institute|ANSI]], [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|IEEE]], [[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]], etc.) == Standard Publications == Some FIPS standards were originally developed by the U.S. government. For instance, standards for encoding data (e.g. [[country codes]]), but more significantly some [[encryption standards]], such as the [[Data Encryption Standard]] ([http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips46-3/fips46-3.pdf FIPS 46]) and the [[Advanced Encryption Standard]] ([http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips197/fips-197.pdf FIPS 197]). == Other websites == * [http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs FIPS homepage] * [http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/index.html FIPS resource center] * [http://csrc.nist.gov/index.html Computer Security Division] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070216064942/http://csrc.nist.gov/index.html |date=2007-02-16 }} {{US-stub}} [[Category:Standards]]