On January 27, NIST announced that it is seeking public comment on its latest draft of a publication intended to help computer security experts use randomness to protect sensitive data. The Second Draft of Special Publication (SP) 800-90B, Recommendation for the Entropy Sources Used for Random Bit Generation, "aims to help security specialists judge whether the source of random numbers they use as part of the data encryption process is sufficiently unpredictable." NIST requests public comments on the draft document by May 9.
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