U.S. government encryption standard

C22172
concept

A U.S. government encryption standard is an officially approved cryptographic algorithm or protocol, such as AES, mandated or recommended by federal authorities to protect sensitive government and public-sector information.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
U.S. federal information processing standard 5
U.S. government encryption standard canonical 1
U.S. government standard 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: U.S. government encryption standard
Generated description
A U.S. government encryption standard is an officially approved cryptographic algorithm or protocol, such as AES, mandated or recommended by federal authorities to protect sensitive government and public-sector information.

Instances (7)

Instance Via concept surface
DES
FIPS 198-1 U.S. federal information processing standard
FIPS 201 U.S. federal information processing standard
FIPS 140 U.S. government standard
Secure Hash Standard U.S. federal information processing standard
FIPS 186-2 U.S. federal information processing standard
FIPS 180-4 U.S. federal information processing standard