After a publication delay of nearly 1 years, the pre-draft of the US NIST SP 800-63-4 was released on December, and public comments are being accepted until 3/24. Its scope is considerably broader than version 3, “SP 800-63-3.” From this perspective, something seemed to be missing, so I asked one of the authors, “Hasn’t such-and-such been omitted entirely?” The response was that they were aware of it and planned to write it. They said that all comments are welcome.
SP 800-63 is a standard for the US federal government, but it has a major influence on related standards in other countries. Japanese government standards are among them. The Japanese government also appears to be considering revisions in this area, so it is worthwhile to study SP 800-63 properly.
I therefore plan to use approximately 2 sessions to read through SP 800-63-4. The reason for dividing it into 2 sessions is that the related documents comprise
- SP 800-63-4 https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Spe…
- SP 800-63A-4 https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-6…
- SP 800-63B-4 https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-6…
- SP 800-63C-4 https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-6…
—4 volumes in all, which clearly cannot be finished in 1 sessions.
OpenID Foundation Japan is apparently working hard on Japanese translations of these documents, and some material may be available in Japanese by the time of the livestream. If usable, I plan to use it as supplementary reading.
Although there is still plenty of time before the public-comment deadline of 3/24, I am doing this now because a relevant meeting at a certain Japanese government agency is scheduled for the end of this month1.
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- You may think that when someone says “the government,” they naturally mean Japan, but I myself am occasionally invited by foreign governments as well…
- limited to people I know personally
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