What is Federal Information Processing Standard?

Information about Federal Information Processing Standard

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States Federal government for use by all non-military government agencies and by government contractors. Many FIPS standards are modified versions of standards used in the wider community (ANSI, IEEE, ISO, etc.)

Some FIPS standards were originally developed by the U.S. government. For instance, standards for encoding data (e.g. country codes), but more significantly some encryption standards, such as the Data Encryption Standard (FIPS 46) and the Advanced Encryption Standard (FIPS 197).

Examples of FIPS standards:

All similar to or comparable with (but not the same as) ISO 3166, or the NUTS standard of the European Union.

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standardization or standardisation can have several meanings depending on its context. Common use of the word standard implies that it is a universally agreed-upon set of guidelines for interoperability.
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American National Standards Institute or ANSI (IPA pronunciation: [Ã¦nsiː]) is a private nonprofit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes,
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Type Professional Organization
Founded January 1, 1963
Origins Merger of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers
Key people Leah H.
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International Organization for Standardization (Organisation internationale de normalisation), widely known as ISO, is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations.
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Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The most famous of these is ISO 3166-1.
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Data Encryption Standard

The Feistel function (F function) of DES

General
IBM
1975 (standardized on January 1977)

Lucifer
Triple DES, G-DES, DES-X, LOKI89, ICE

Cipher detail
Key size(s):| 56 bits

Block size(s):| 64 bits
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AES

The SubBytes step, one of four stages in a round of AES

General
Vincent Rijmen, Joan Daemen
1998

Square
Anubis, Grand Cru

AES winner, CRYPTREC, NESSIE
Cipher detail
Key size(s):| 128, 192 or 256 bits^[1]
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This is a list of FIPS 10-4 country codes. There is also a List of FIPS region codes. Non-sovereign entities are in parentheses. Note that these codes are not the same as the ISO 3166 codes used by the U.N. and for Internet top-level country code domains.
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FIPS 10-4 standard, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions, lists two-letter country codes that are used by the U.S.
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FIPS state codes are a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code (FIPS 5-2) for geographic coding of human settlements in the United States. They are used in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and are also used in this encyclopedia.
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The FIPS county code is a five-digit Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code ( FIPS 6-4 ) which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents in the United States, certain U.S. possessions, and certain freely associated states.
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ISO 3166 is a three-part geographic coding standard for coding the names of countries and dependent areas, and the principal subdivisions thereof, published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
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The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a geocode standard for referencing the administrative divisions of countries for statistical purposes. The standard was developed by the European Union, and thus only covers the member states of the EU in detail (see
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“EU” redirects here. For other uses, see EU (disambiguation).

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The Federal Information Processing Standard 140 (FIPS) are series of publications numbered 140 which are a U.S. government computer security standards that specify requirements for cryptography modules.
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Cryptography (or cryptology; derived from Greek κρυπτός kryptÃ³s "hidden," and the verb γράφω grÃ¡fo "write" or λεγειν legein
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FIPS 201 (Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 201) is a United States federal government standard that specifies Personal Identity Verification (PIV) requirements for Federal employees and contractors.
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This is a list of FIPS 10-4 region codes, using a standardized name format, and cross-linking to articles. The list is broken up into alphabetical sections.

ABC - DEF - GHI - JKL - MNO - PQR - STU - VWXYZ