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Comment Deadline: December 29, ITI (INCITS) 2002 New National Adoptions BSR/ISO/IEC 9796-2-2002, Information technology - Security techniques NSF (NSF International) - Digital signature schemes giving message recovery - Part 2: Integer factorization based mechanisms (identical national adoption) Revisions Specifies three digital signature schemes giving message recovery, two BSR/NSF 184-200x, Residential Dishwashers (i1) (revision of ANSI/NSF of which are deterministic (non-randomized) and one of which is 184 (i1)-2001) randomized. The security of all three schemes is based on the difficulty of factorizing large numbers. All three schemes can provide either total Revise section 6. (see attached for 30-day review.) or partial message recovery. Click here to see these changes in full, or look at the end of “Standards Single copy price: $84.00 Action.” Obtain an electronic copy from: Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Mark Connors, NSF; http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/find.asp? [email protected] Order from: ANSl Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Barbara Bennett, [email protected] Comment Deadline: January 13, BSR/ISO/IEC 22091-2002, Information technology - Streaming Lossless Data Compression algorithm (SLDC) (identical national adoption) 2003 Specifies a lossless compression algorithm to reduce the number of 8-bit bytes required to represent data records and File Marks. The algorithm is API (American Petroleum Institute) known as Streaming Lossless Data Compression algorithm