Rating of Cryptographic Toolkit

A European ECRYPT II team of testers recently reviewed and rated the Cryptographic Toolkit of the U.S. Government's Security Technology Group (STG) of the Computer Security Division (CSD), Information Technology Laboratory of the NIST [National Institute of Standards and Technology].

The Cryptographic Toolkit is supposed to "enable U.S. Government agencies and others to select cryptographic security components and functionality for protecting their data, communications, and operations".

The ECRYPT II team rated the toolkit as "average". The review and rating will be available in the July 2009 issue of Telemetry Encryption Today.