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. Standardization (or standardisation) is the process of developing and agreeing upon technical standards. The federal government of the United States is the central United States Governmental body established by the United States Constitution. Many FIPS standards are modified versions of standards used in the wider community (ANSI, IEEE, ISO, etc. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (read eye-triple-e) is an international Non-profit, professional organization )
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). Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical Codes ( Geocodes developed to represent countries and dependent areas for use in data processing The Data Encryption Standard ( DES) is a Cipher (a method for Encrypting information selected by NBS as an official Federal Information In Cryptography, the Advanced Encryption Standard ( AES) also known as Rijndael, is a Block cipher adopted as an Encryption
Examples of FIPS standards:
- FIPS country codes and region codes (10-4)
- FIPS place codes (55-3)
- FIPS county codes (6-4)
- FIPS state codes (5-2)
All similar to or comparable with (but not the same as) ISO 3166, or the NUTS standard of the European Union. This is a list of FIPS 10-4 Country codes for Countries Dependencies Areas of Special Sovereignty and Their Principal Administrative Divisions. This is a list of FIPS 10-4 region codes using a standardized name format and cross-linking to articles 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 FIPS state codes are two- digit numeric Codes and two- letter alphabetic codes that represent the 50 states, the District of Columbia ISO 3166 is a three-part Geographic coding standard for coding the names of countries and Dependent areas and the principal subdivisions The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, ( NUTS) for the French nomenclature d'unités territoriales statistiques, is a Geocode The European Union ( EU) is a political and economic union of twenty-seven member states, located primarily in
See also
- FIPS 140 Security requirements for cryptography modules
- FIPS 201 Personal Identity Verification for Federal Employees and Contractors
- List of FIPS region codes
- Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA)
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The Federal Information Processing Standard 140 ( FIPS) are series of publications numbered 140 which are a U Cryptography (or cryptology; from Greek grc κρυπτός kryptos, "hidden secret" and grc γράφω gráphō, "I write" FIPS 201 ( Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 201 is a United States federal government standard that specifies Personal Identity Verification ( This is a list of FIPS 10-4 region codes using a standardized name format and cross-linking to articles The Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (" FISMA ", et seqDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic