On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 20:46:41 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> > I checked out references to `nist.gov`. > > I found 7 references to 4 documents: > > ``` > > $ grep -r '*.*href=[^ ]*nist.gov' open/src/java.base | grep -o > > 'nist.gov[^"]*' > > nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.140-2.pdf > > nist.gov/publications/fips/fips186-3/fips_186-3.pdf > > nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-90Ar1.pdf > > nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-38F.pdf> > > nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-38F.pdf> > > nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-38F.pdf> > > nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-38F.pdf> > > ``` > > Of these 4, 1 shows a page that says the spec has been superseded, and one > > is effectively a 404 > > ``` > > Oops, that's not standard?! > > Sorry, we cannot find that page. > > > > The page you requested cannot be found at this time. > > ``` > > > > I would like to defer these issues to be handled separately, and add > > `@spec` tags for these pages later, once the appropriate specs have been > > identified. > > Update, the apparent 404 is explained by a scripting error, due to an > unquoted attribute value. The site name in the urls has changed to nvlpubs.nist.gov . For the DSS, the latest version in which DSA is described is nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.186-4.pdf . It will be with withdrawn on February 23, 2024, though, and the superseding FIPS 186-5 standard says that it can only be used for signature verification from then on, but for the algorithm description it points back to FIPS 186-4. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13336#issuecomment-1584332934
