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NIST Security Standard can protect credit cards.

March 31, 2016 | Comments Off on NIST Security Standard can protect credit cards.

NIST Special Publication 800-38G, Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Methods for Format-Preserving Encryption, specifies two techniques, called FF1 and FF3, for "format-preserving encryption," or FPE. While the main commercial impetus for developing these techniques is credit card number encryption, another potential application is the anonymizing of personally identifiable information from databases, particularly those containing sensitive medical information.
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