Các tổ chức tiêu chuẩn

• the Federal Information Processing Standards Publication program (run by NIST to produce standards in many areas to guide operations of the US Federal government; many FIPS Pubs are cryptography related, ongoing)
• the ANSI standardization process (produces many standards in many areas; some are cryptography related, ongoing)
• ISO standardization process (produces many standards in many areas; some are cryptography related, ongoing)
• IEEE standardization process (produces many standards in many areas; some are cryptography related, ongoing)
• IETF standardization process (produces many standards (called RFCs) in many areas; some are cryptography related, ongoing)

See Cryptography standards

Các tổ chức liên quan tới mật mã

• NSA internal evaluation/selections (surely extensive, nothing is publicly known of the process or its results for internal use; NSA is charged with assisting NIST in its cryptographic responsibilities)
• GCHQ internal evaluation/selections (surely extensive, nothing is publicly known of the process or its results for GCHQ use; a division of GCHQ is charged with developing and recommending cryptographic standards for the UK government)
• DSD Australian SIGINT agency - part of ECHELON
• Communications Security Establishment (CSE) — Canadian intelligence agency.

Các dự án mở

• Quá trình thiết kế DES do (NBS tổ chức, kết thúc năm 1976.
• the RIPE division of the RACE project (sponsored by the European Union, ended mid-'80s)
• Cuộc thi thiết kế AES (NIST tài trọ; kết thúc năm 2001)
• the NESSIE Project (evaluation/selection program sponsored by the European Union; ended 2002)
• the CRYPTREC program (Japanese government sponsored evaluation/recommendation project; draft recommendations published 2003)
• the Internet Engineering Task Force (technical body responsible for Internet standards—the Request for Comment series: ongoing)
• the CrypTool project (eLearning programme in English and German; freeware; exhaustive educational tool about cryptography and cryptanalysis)