(forw) Announcing DRAFT Special Publication 800-63 Recommendation for Electronic Authentication

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Subject: Announcing DRAFT Special Publication 800-63 Recommendation for Electronic Authentication
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:11:34 -0500 (EST)
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January 29, 2004 --
NIST has completed the draft NIST Special Publication 800-63, 
Recommendation for Electronic Authentication. E-authentication is the 
remote authentication of individual people over a network for the purpose 
of electronic government and commerce. This recommendation provides 
technical guidance in the implementation of electronic authentication to 
allow an individual person to remotely authenticate his or her identity to 
a Federal IT system. It supplements OMB guidance, E-Authentication Guidance 
for Federal Agencies that defines four levels of authentication in terms of 
the likely consequences of an authentication error. Special Publication 
800-63 states specific technical requirements for each of the four levels 
of assurance in the following areas: identity proofing and registration, 
tokens, remote authentication mechanisms and assertion mechanisms. NIST 
requests comments on the draft document by March 15, 2004. Please address 
your comments to: [email protected].

URL to view the draft publication, please visit CSRC's Draft publication 
page:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts.html


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