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problems of their own, and hence the current state in international standardization
is not particularly good. This is worrisome but must be addressed elsewhere. In the
meantime, industry-sponsored standardization activities, like the specification of the
PKCS, are important to fill the gap. Again, a comprehensive overview about the
standards that are relevant in applied and practical cryptography is provided in [2].
References
[1]
Maurer, U.M.,
Cryptography 2000
±
10
, Springer-Verlag, New York, LNCS 2000, 2000, pp. 63-
85.
[2]
Dent, A.W., and C.J. Mitchell,
User's Guide to Cryptography and Standards
. Artech House
Publishers, Norwood, MA, 2004.
