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Special Publication (NIST SP)

Guideline for Using Cryptographic Standards in the Federal Government: Directives, Mandates and Policies

August 22, 2016

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, William C. Barker

This document is part of a series intended to provide guidance to the Federal Government for using cryptography and NIST's cryptographic standards to protect

Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial & Other Biometric Information ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 NIST Special Publication 500-290 Edition 3

August 21, 2016

Author(s)

Kevin C. Mangold

This is the 2015 Update to the ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard

Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) for the Palla VM-KT Vibrating Cryomill: Production of Fresh Frozen Standard Reference and Control Materials (SRMs/CMs) at the NIST Reference Material Production Facility

August 11, 2016

Author(s)

Amanda J. Moors, Rebecca S. Pugh, Jody R. Evans, Jennifer M. Ness, Debra L. Ellisor, Melannie J. Bachman

The NIST Reference Materials Production (RMP) Facility at the Hollings Marine Laboratory produces fresh, frozen powder materials which are used as Standard

Operation of the Millrock Quanta Series Freeze Dryer PC/PLC: Production of Freeze Dried Standard Reference and Control Materials (SRMs/CMs) at the NIST Reference Material Production Facility

August 11, 2016

Author(s)

Amanda J. Moors, Rebecca S. Pugh, Paul R. Becker

Certification Pathway for Downsampling 1000 ppi Fingerprint Friction Ridge Imagery to 500 ppi

August 11, 2016

Author(s)

John M. Libert, John D. Grantham, Craig I. Watson

The document describes the procedure by which fingerprint image downsampling procedures will be evaluated with respect to conformance to the NIST guidance for

Evaluating the Sustainability Performance of Alternative Residential Building Designs using the BIRDS Low-Energy Residential Database

August 10, 2016

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, Eric G. O'Rear, David H. Webb

Computer Security Division 2015 Annual Report

August 10, 2016

Author(s)

Patrick D. O'Reilly, Gregory A. Witte, Larry Feldman

Title III of the E-Government Act of 2002, entitled the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002, requires NIST to prepare an annual public

User's Guide to Telework and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Security

July 29, 2016

Author(s)

Murugiah P. Souppaya, Karen Scarfone

Many people telework, and they use a variety of devices, such as desktop and laptop computers, smartphones, and tablets, to read and send email, access websites

Guide to Enterprise Telework, Remote Access, and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Security

July 29, 2016

Author(s)

Murugiah P. Souppaya, Karen Scarfone

For many organizations, their employees, contractors, business partners, vendors, and/or others use enterprise telework or remote access technologies to perform

Networks of 'Things'

July 28, 2016

Author(s)

Jeffrey M. Voas

System primitives allow formalisms, reasoning, simulations, and reliability and security risk-tradeoffs to be formulated and argued. In this work, five core

Method for Measuring the Volume of Nominally 100 um Diameter Spherical Water-in-Oil Emulsion Droplets

July 13, 2016

Author(s)

John A. Dagata, Natalia Farkas, John A. Kramar

This report describes an equivalent volume measurement method using optical microscopy for estimating the mean volume of nominally 100 um diameter spherical

Method for measuring the diameter of polystyrene latex reference spheres by atomic force microscopy

June 30, 2016

Author(s)

John A. Dagata, Premsagar P. Kavuri, Andras Vladar, Kensei Ehara, Natalia Farkas, Chung-Lin Wu, Hiroshi Itoh

This report presents a correlated height and width measurement model for particle size analysis of spherical particles by atomic force microscopy (AFM). It is

Derived PIV Application and Data Model Test Guidelines

June 6, 2016

Author(s)

David Cooper, Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Nabil Ghadiali, Jason Mohler, Steven Brady

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-157 contains technical guidelines for the implementation of standards-based, secure, reliable, interoperable Public Key

Representation of PIV Chain-of-Trust for Import and Export

May 20, 2016

Author(s)

Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Ketan L. Mehta, Jason Mohler, Stephen Skordinski, Steven Brady

This document provides a common XML-based data representation of a chain-of-trust record to facilitate the exchange of PIV Card enrollment data. The exchanged

NIST Recommended Practice Guide: Fractography of Ceramics and Glasses, 2nd edition

May 11, 2016

Author(s)

George D. Quinn

Fractography is a powerful tool for the analysis of fractured glasses and ceramics. It is applicable to fractures created under controlled conditions in the

JPEG 2000 CODEC Certification Guidance for 1000 ppi Fingerprint Friction Ridge Imagery

April 13, 2016

Author(s)

John M. Libert, Shahram Orandi, Michael D. Garris, Frederick R. Byers, John D. Grantham

The document describes the procedure by which applications of JPEG 2000 CODECs will be evaluated with respect to conformance to the NIST guidance for

PIV Card Application and Middleware Interface Test Guidelines (SP 800-73-4 compliance)

April 13, 2016

Author(s)

David Cooper, Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Jason Mohler

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-73 contains the technical specifications to interface with the smart card to retrieve and use the Personal Identity

Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Methods for Format-Preserving Encryption

March 29, 2016

Author(s)

Morris J. Dworkin

This Recommendation specifies two methods, called FF1 and FF3, for format-preserving encryption. Both of these methods are modes of operation for an underlying

SRM 1967a: High-Purity Platinum Thermoelement

March 9, 2016

Author(s)

Karen M. Garrity, Weston L. Tew, Dean C. Ripple

Consisting of a 1 m long piece of 0.5 mm diameter platinum wire, SRM 1967a meets the requirements for a thermoelectric reference material for temperatures from

Secure Virtual Network Configuration for Virtual Machine (VM) Protection

March 7, 2016

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli

Virtual Machines (VMs) are key resources to be protected since they are the compute engines hosting mission-critical applications. Since VMs are end-nodes of a

Economics of Community Disaster Resilience Workshop Proceedings

March 1, 2016

Author(s)

Bilal Ayyub, Robert E. Chapman, Gearald Galloway, Richard Wright

This report documents the effort launched by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop, organize, and convene a workshop on the

Interfaces for Personal Identity Verification [including updates as of 02-08-2016]

February 11, 2016

Author(s)

David Cooper, Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ketan Mehta, Salvatore Francomacaro, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Jason Mohler

[Superseded by SP 800-73pt1-5 (July 2024): https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=957973 SP 800-73pt2-5 (July 2024): https://tsapps.nist.gov

Election Results Common Data Format Specification

February 9, 2016

Author(s)

John P. Wack, Kim Brace, Samuel Dana, Herb Deutsch, John Dziurlaj, Ian Piper, Don Rehill, Richard M. Rivello, Sarah Whitt

This publication describes an election results common data format specification for pre-election setup information and post-election results reporting. It

Energy and Economic Implications of Solar Photovoltaic Performance Degradation

February 5, 2016

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, David H. Webb, Eric G. O'Rear

Recommendation for Key Management, Part 1: General

January 28, 2016

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker

This Recommendation provides cryptographic key management guidance. It consists of three parts. Part 1 provides general guidance and best practices for the

Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Information Systems and Organizations [including updates as of 01-14-2016]

January 21, 2016

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross, Kelley L. Dempsey, Patrick Viscuso, Mark Riddle, Gary Guissanie

[Superseded by SP 800-171 Rev. 1 (December 2016): https://www.nist.gov/publications/protecting- controlled-unclassified-information-nonfederal-systems-and

Measurement Challenges and Metrology for Monitoring CO2 Emissions from Smokestacks Workshop Summary

January 20, 2016

Author(s)

Aaron N. Johnson, Rodney A. Bryant, Tamae M. Wong, James R. Whetstone, Eric Harman, Woong Kang, Keith A. Gillis, Hsin-Hung Lee, Iosif I. Shinder, Liang Zhang

On April 20-21, 2015, NIST hosted a workshop that, through measurement science, enabled the owners of stationary sources (primarily the electric power industry)

Strategies for scanning electron microscopy sample preparation and characterization of multiwall carbon nanotube polymer composites

January 20, 2016

Author(s)

Andras Vladar

This guideline presents methods for the preparation and investigation of samples of multiwall carbon nanotube-polymer composites by scanning electron microscopy

Characterization of nanoparticle suspensions using single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

January 8, 2016

Author(s)

Karen E. Murphy, Jingyu Liu, Antonio R. Montoro Bustos, Monique E. Johnson, Michael R. Winchester

This NIST special publication (SP) is one in a series of NIST SPs that address research needs articulated in the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)

An Assessment of Typical Weather Year Data Impacts vs. Multi-year Weather Data on Net-Zero Energy Building Simulations

January 8, 2016

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, Eric G. O'Rear