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                                    | 1. | Clear description of the referenced document: |  
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                                                | Name: | NIST SP 800-90b (2016) |  
                                                | Title: | NIST Special Publication 800-90b: Recommendation for the Entropy Sources Used for Random Bit Generation. |  |  
                                    | 2. | Status of approval: |  
                                    |  | January 27, 2016 |  
                                    | 3. | Justification for the specific reference: |  
                                    |  | The referenced document constitutes provisions of this Recommendation |  
                                    | 4. | Current information, if any, about IPR issues: |  
                                    |  | Some information may be available in the NIST Patents Database that can be accessed through https://www.nist.gov/tpo/patents |  
                                    | 5. | Other useful information describing the "Quality" of the document: |  
                                    |  | It is an approved and published NIST standard |  
                                    | 6. | The degree of stability or maturity of the document: |  
                                    |  | Stable since 2016 |  
                                    | 7. | Relationship with other existing or emerging documents: |  
                                    |  | None |  
                                    | 8. | Any explicit references within that referenced document should also be listed: |  
                                    |  | [FIPS 140] Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2, Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules, May 25, 2001. / [FIPS 180] Federal Information Processing Standard 180-4, Secure Hash Standard (SHS), March 2012. /
 [FIPS 197] Federal Information Processing Standard 197, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), November 2001. /
 [FIPS 198] Federal Information Processing Standard 198-1, Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC), July 2008. /
 [SP 800-38B] National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication (SP) 800- 38B, Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation – The CMAC Mode for Authentication, May 2005. /
 [SP 800-67] NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-67, Recommendation for the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA) Block Cipher, May 2004./
 [SP 800-90A] National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication (SP) 800- 90A, Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators, January 2012. /
 [SP 800-90C] National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication (SP) 800- 90C, Draft. /
 [X9.82-1] American National Standard (ANS) X9.82, Part 1-2006, Random Number Generation Part 1: Overview and Basic Principles. /
 [X9.82-2] American National Standard (ANS) X9.82, Part 2, Random Number Generation Part 2: Entropy Sources, Draft. /
 [BZ2] BZ2 Compression Algorithm. http://www.bzip.org/. /
 [Bellman] Richard Bellman, Dynamic Programming. Princeton University Press, 1957. [Knuth] Knuth (1998) [1969]. The Art of Computer Programming vol.2 (3rd ed.). Boston: Addison-Wesley. /
 [Maurer] Ueli Maurer, “A Universal Statistical Test for Random Bit Generators,” Journal of Cryptology, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1992, pp. 89-105./
 [Peres] Yuval Peres, “Iterating von Neumann's procedure for extracting random bits,” Ann. Statist., 1992. /
 [Rabiner] Lawrence R. Rabiner, “A tutorial on hidden Markov models and selected applications in speech recognition,” Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 77, pp. 257–286, Feb. 1989.
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                                    | 9. | Qualification of
                                        NIST: |  
                                    |  | Qualification of NIST: NIST is recognized under the provisions of ITU-T Recommendation A.5. Qualifying information is on file in TSB. |  
                                    | 10. | Other (for any supplementary information): |  
                                    |  | None |  |