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NIST SP 800-132

Recommendation for Password-Based Key Derivation: Part 1: Storage Applications

Date Published: December 2010

Planning Note (05/11/2023): NIST is planning to revise this publication. See the announcement for full details. Send inquiries to [email protected].

Author(s)

Meltem Sönmez Turan (NIST), Elaine Barker (NIST), William Burr (NIST), Lily Chen (NIST)

Abstract

Keywords

Password-Based Key Derivation Functions; Salt; Iteration Count; Protection of data in storage.
Control Families

Access Control

Documentation

Publication:
https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-132
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Supplemental Material:
None available

Document History:
12/22/10: SP 800-132 (Final)

Topics

Security and Privacy

key management