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NIST Security Standard can protect credit cards.
2016-03-31 14:31:15| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
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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