Elaine B. Barker

Projects:

Current Projects:

Key Management
Random Number Generation
ANSI X9F1 standards activities

Past Projects:

AES and Digital Signatures
ANSI X9F1 and X9F3/E9 standards
Key Recovery Demonstration Project
Key Escrow
FIPS 140-1 development
Treasury Electronic Certification System
ANSI X12 security standards
MAC Validation System
Key Management Validation System

Selected Publications

Recommendation for Key Management - Part 3: Application-Specific Key Management Guidance

December 28, 2009

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, William E. Burr, Alicia Clay Jones, William T. Polk, Scott W. Rose, Miles E. Smid, Quynh H. Dang

[Superseded by: SP 800-57 Part 3 Rev. 1 (January 2015): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=917445] Special Publication 800-57 provides

Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography (Revised)

March 14, 2007

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Don Johnson, Miles E. Smid

[Superseded by SP 800-56A Rev. 2 (May 2013): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=913431] This Recommendation provides the

Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators (Revised)

March 14, 2007

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, John M. Kelsey

[Superseded by SP 800-90A (January 2012): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=910345] This Recommendation specifies mechanisms for the

Publications

Recommendation for Key-Derivation Methods in Key-Establishment Schemes

August 18, 2020

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Lidong Chen, Richard Davis

This Recommendation specifies techniques for the derivation of keying material from a shared secret established during a key-establishment scheme defined in

Guide to IPsec VPNs

June 30, 2020

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Quynh H. Dang, Sheila E. Frankel, Karen Scarfone, Paul Wouters

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is a widely used network layer security control for protecting communications. IPsec is a framework of open standards for

Recommendation for Cryptographic Key Generation

June 4, 2020

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Allen L. Roginsky, Richard Davis

Cryptography is often used in an information technology security environment to protect data that is sensitive, has a high value, or is vulnerable to

Recommendation for Key Management: Part 1 - General

May 4, 2020

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker

This Recommendation provides cryptographic key-management guidance. It consists of three parts. Part 1 (this document) provides general guidance and best

Guideline for Using Cryptographic Standards in the Federal Government: Cryptographic Mechanisms

March 31, 2020

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker

This document is intended to provide guidance to the Federal Government for using cryptography and NIST's cryptographic standards to protect sensitive, but

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