YaBooni t1_ixx5wzr wrote on November 27, 2022 at 1:56 AM Reply to TIL about the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - a US government agency maintaining a reference catalogue of almost any item known; from peanut butter to New Jersey waste water samples. And everything is for sale. by samgarita NIST also performs some pretty important functions. They’ve played a huge part over the past few decades in the validation and standardization of cryptographic algorithms used everywhere in computers today. Permalink 32
YaBooni t1_ixx5wzr wrote
Reply to TIL about the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - a US government agency maintaining a reference catalogue of almost any item known; from peanut butter to New Jersey waste water samples. And everything is for sale. by samgarita
NIST also performs some pretty important functions. They’ve played a huge part over the past few decades in the validation and standardization of cryptographic algorithms used everywhere in computers today.