On November 21, ENISA issued two reports. The 2014 algorithms, key size, and parameters report provides guidelines to decision-makers on security measures to protect personal data, with a focus on commercial online services, hardware and software side-channels, random number generation, key life cycle management, and long-term data-retention issues. The study on cryptographic protocols focuses on the current status in cryptographic protocols, covering guidelines regarding protocols required to protect commercial online communications containing personal data.

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