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Standard Reference Materials

Standard Reference Materials are certified reference materials (CRMs) that can be used to help develop accurate methods of analysis, to calibrate measurement systems used to measure a property at the state-of-the-art limit.
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2021 Model-Based Enterprise Summit

Mon, Apr 12 - Fri, Apr 16 2021
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PQC 2021

Third PQC Standardization Conference

Mon, Jun 7 2021, 11:00am - Wed, Jun 9 2021, 3:00pm EDT
The NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process has entered the third phase, in which 7 third round finalists