Skip to content

Updates the Introduction for all algorithms. #1617

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
livebe01 merged 2 commits into from
Nov 7, 2025
Merged

Updates the Introduction for all algorithms. #1617

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
10bf32e
Updates the Introduction with a second paragraph that explains that A…
Nov 7, 2025
6046d9a
hyperlinks NIST and CAVP
livebe01 Nov 7, 2025
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions src/common/common-sections/01-intro.adoc
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -3,3 +3,5 @@
== Introduction

The Automated Crypto Validation Protocol (ACVP) defines a mechanism to automatically verify the cryptographic implementation of a software or hardware crypto module. The ACVP specification defines how a crypto module communicates with an ACVP server, including crypto capabilities negotiation, session management, authentication, vector processing and more. The ACVP specification does not define algorithm specific JSON constructs for performing the crypto validation. A series of ACVP sub-specifications define the constructs for testing individual crypto algorithms. Each sub-specification addresses a specific class of crypto algorithms. This sub-specification defines the JSON constructs for testing {spec-algorithm} implementations using ACVP.

This document is a work-product of the https://www.nist.gov/[NIST] https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-algorithm-validation-program[Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program] (CAVP). Please communicate questions and feedback concerning this document to the CAVP by opening an issue on the usnistgov/ACVP GitHub repository at https://github.com/usnistgov/ACVP/issues.