National Institute of Standards and Technology is working on a report to prevent the NSA from meddling in its cryptographic standards. The report was published nearly 10 months ago after allegations that the NSA tampered with a NIST cryptographic algorithm. The goal of NIST’s effort is to prevent NIST from helping NIST develop standards that could be used by the intelligence agency as a backdoor to secretly gather information from organizations that employ NIST-developed algorithms. NIST plans to release the next draft of IR 7977 in early 2015, and then solicit further comments from the public.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/nist-tardy-on-cryptography-standards-report-a-7651/op-1