National Institute for Standards and Technology is seeking to reassure people that its standards process hasn t been compromised by the NSA. NIST is the federal agency responsible for developing technology standards and best practices for the federal government. The agency has re-opened the comment period on several of its cryptographic standards related to elliptic curves. Security experts and cryptographers say that the revelations about the NSA s influence on the NIST process may have caused major damage to NIST S reputation.
Source: https://threatpost.com/nist-refutes-allegations-nsa-compromised-crypto-standards/102250/