The Chief Information Officer of the Social Security Administration Grants to the Social Security Administration a Waiver From the Use of Certain Federal Information Processing Standards

The Chief Information Officer of the Social Security Administration grants to SSA a waiver from the use of the following Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS): 1. The Secure Hashing Standard (FIPS 180-1); 2. The Digital Signature Standard (FIPS 186); and 3. The Data Encryption Standard (FIPS 46-2). This waiver is granted pursuant to authority granted to the Secretary of Commerce by 40 U.S.C. section 1441, and delegated to the Commissioner of Social Security in the above referenced FIPS Publications. This authority was redelegated by the Commissioner of Social Security to the Agency's Chief Information Officer. This waiver is granted to allow SSA to use commercial off-the-shelf cryptographic products such as those produced by RSA Data Security, Inc., in lieu of products conforming with the above-cited FIPS.