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Proposed Withdrawal of FIPS 198-1, Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC)
NIST's proposal to withdraw Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 198-1, HMAC, has been announced in the Federal Register. Comments are due July 23, 2025.