Socialistische Partij Anders

Socialist Party Differently ( Socialistische Partij Anders,sp.a) is a social-democraticFlemish political party in Belgium. The party, formerly known as the Belgische Socialistische Partij (BSP) 1978–80 and the Socialistische Partij (SP) 1980–2001, had branched off from the Belgian Socialist Party in 1978; the Belgian Socialist Party was itself formed by former members of the Belgian Labour Party. From December 2011 to September 2014, sp.a was part of the Di Rupo Government, along with its Francophone counterpart Socialist Party (PS). Sp.a has been several times part of the Flemish Government.

History

1885–1940

1940–1978

1978-now

The party was the big winner in the 2003 election, running on the SP.A-Spirit joint list (cartel) with the social-liberal party Spirit. Their share of the vote went up from 9% (of the total Belgian vote) to almost 15%, a second place in the number of votes. The main victim of this resurgence was the Green! party (formerly known as Agalev). The sp.a was part of the "purple" federal coalitions of Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt from 12 July 1999 until 10 June 2007, which contained both the Flemish and Francophone liberal and social-democratic parties.

SP-A

SP-A may refer to:

NIST SP 800-90A

NIST SP 800-90A ("SP" stands for "special publication") is a publication by the National Institute of Standards and Technology with the title Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators. The publication contains the specification for four cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generators for use in cryptography: Hash_DRBG (based on hash functions), HMAC_DRBG (Based on Hash-based message authentication code), CTR_DRBG (based on block ciphers), and Dual_EC_DRBG (based on elliptic curve cryptography). The Dual_EC_DRBG RNG was later reported to probably contain a backdoor inserted by the National Security Agency, while the other three random number generators are still considered secure.

As a work of the US Federal Government, NIST SP 800-90A is in the public domain and freely available. However, the version now available [17 Feb 2014] under the original SP 800-90A designation is actually an externally unlabelled version dated internally as January 2012. The updating changes need to be compared to the actual original document. [Needed: a validated link or reference citation to the original version of March 2007.]