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Special Publication (NIST SP)

WWVB Radio Controlled Clocks: Recommended Practices for Manufacturers and Consumers (2009 edition)

September 8, 2009

Author(s)

Michael A. Lombardi, Andrew N. Novick, John P. Lowe, Matthew J. Deutch, Glenn K. Nelson, Douglas D. Sutton, William C. Yates, D. W. Hanson

Radio controlled clocks represent a true revolution in timekeeping. Clocks that synchronize to NIST radio station WWVB now number in the millions in the United

Time and Frequency Users Manual

September 2, 2009

Author(s)

Michael A. Lombardi

This book is for the person who needs information about making time and frequency measurements. It is written at a level that will satisfy those with a casual

Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Schemes Using Integer Factorization Cryptography

August 28, 2009

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Lidong Chen, Andrew R. Regenscheid, Miles E. Smid

[Superseded by SP 800-56B Rev. 1 (September 2014): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=916341] This recommendation specifies key

FIRE FACTS

August 28, 2009

Author(s)

James R. Lawson

Fire Facts gives the reader an ordered series of temperature and heat flux values that may be associated to fire growth conditions and relates these exposure

Mobile ID Device Best Practice Recommendation Version 1.0

August 19, 2009

Author(s)

Shahram Orandi, R. Michael McCabe

Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations [includes updates through 8/12/2009]

August 12, 2009

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross

[Superseded by NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 3 (August 2009 w/updates through 9/14/2009): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=918661] The

Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations

August 3, 2009

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross

[Superseded by NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 3 (August 2009 w/updates through 8/12/2009): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=918662] The

Certification Report for SRM 2112 and 2113

July 1, 2009

Author(s)

Christopher N. McCowan

This report documents the procedures used to develop certified maximum force and absorbed energy values for SRM 2112 and SRM 2113. The report serves to provide

NIST Special Publication 250-39 2009 NIST Calibration Services for Pressure Using Piston Gauge Standards

July 1, 2009

Author(s)

Douglas A. Olson

Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE) 2008

June 22, 2009

Author(s)

Vadim Okun, Romain Gaucher, Paul E. Black

The NIST SAMATE project conducted the first Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE) in 2008 to advance research in static analysis tools that find security

Guide to Enterprise Telework and Remote Access Security

June 16, 2009

Author(s)

Karen A. Scarfone, Paul Hoffman, Murugiah P. Souppaya

[Superseded by NIST SP 800-46 Rev. 2 (July 2016): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=921406] Many organizations employees and

CFAST - Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (Version 6), User's Guide, DECEMBER 2008 REVISION

June 12, 2009

Author(s)

Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, Glenn P. Forney, Walter W. Jones

CFAST is a two-zone fire model capable of predicting the environment in a multi-compartment structure subjected to a fire. It calculates the time evolving

Summary of NIST/GSA Cooperative Research on the Use of Elevators During Fire Emergencies

June 12, 2009

Author(s)

Richard D. Peacock, Richard W. Bukowski

This report summarizes the results of NIST research on the use of elevators during fire emergencies conducted as part of a cooperative effort funded in part by

CFAST - Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (Version 6), Software and Experimental Validation Guide

June 12, 2009

Author(s)

Richard D. Peacock, Kevin B. McGrattan, Bryan W. Klein, Walter W. Jones, Paul A. Reneke

This supplement to the CFAST Technical Reference Guide provides details of the software development process for CFAST and accompanying validation for the model

Building Occupant Safety Research 2008

June 12, 2009

Author(s)

Richard D. Peacock, Jason D. Averill, Erica D. Kuligowski, Richard W. Bukowski

Historically, building egress systems have evolved in response to specific large loss incidents. Currently, systems are designed around a concept of providing

CFAST - Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (Version 6), Technical Reference Guide, APRIL 2009 REVISION

June 12, 2009

Author(s)

Walter W. Jones, Richard Peacock, Glenn P. Forney, Paul A. Reneke

CFAST is a two-zone fire model capable of predicting the environment in a multi-compartment structure subjected to a fire. It calculates the time evolving

CFAST: Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (Version 6). Technical Reference Guide.

April 1, 2009

Author(s)

Walter W. Jones, Richard D. Peacock, Glenn P. Forney, Paul A. Reneke

CFAST is a two-zone fire model used to calculate the evolving distribution of smoke, fire gases and temperature throughout compartments of a constructed

PIV Card Application and Middleware Interface Test Guidelines (SP800-73-2 compliance)

March 31, 2009

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ketan L. Mehta

[Superseded by SP 800-85A-2 (July 2010): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=906167] The objective of this document [SP 800-85A-1] is

Mass Notification Messages: Workshop Proceedings

March 30, 2009

Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski, Richard D. Peacock, Jason D. Averill, Richard W. Bukowski

This workshop provided a forum to discuss research and best practices regarding mass notification message creation and dissemination. The goal of the workshop

Information Security Training Requirements: A Role- and performance-Based Model (Draft)

March 2, 2009

Author(s)

Mark Wilson, Kevin M. Stine, Pauline Bowen

This document and NIST Special Publication 800-50, Building an Information Technology Security Awareness and Training Program describe the following key

Recommendation for Applications Using Approved Hash Algorithms

February 25, 2009

Author(s)

Quynh H. Dang

[Superseded by SP 800-107 Rev. 1 (August 2012): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=911479] Cryptographic hash functions that compute a

Randomized Hashing for Digital Signatures

February 25, 2009

Author(s)

Quynh H. Dang

NIST-approved digital signature algorithms require the use of an approved cryptographic hash function in the generation and verification of signatures. Approved

Committee Reports of the 93rd National Conference on Weights and Measures, July 13 - 17, 2008, Burlington, Vermont (SP1080)

February 23, 2009

Author(s)

Linda D. Crown, Steven E. Cook, Lisa Warfield

The 93rd Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM) was held in Burlington, Vermont, July 13 - 17, 2008. The theme of the

Proceedings of the 2008 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS 08) Workshop, August 19-21, 2008

February 10, 2009

Author(s)

Rajmohan Madhavan, Elena R. Messina

The 2008 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS'08) Workshop is the eighth in the series that started in 2000 targeted at defining measures and

Stopwatch and Timer Calibrations (2009 edition)

January 28, 2009

Author(s)

Jeff C. Gust, Robert M. Graham, Michael A. Lombardi

Stopwatch and timer calibrations are perhaps the most common calibrations performed in the field of time and frequency metrology. Hundreds of United States

Maintenance and Validation of Liquid-in-Glass Thermometers

January 1, 2009

Author(s)

Christina D. Cross, Dean C. Ripple, Gregory F. Strouse

Liquid-in-glass thermometers are pervasive in use throughout industry and provide a convenient method for measuring temperature over for a broad range of

Measurement of Axisymmetric Crystallographic Texture

January 1, 2009

Author(s)

Mark D. Vaudin

Crystallographic texture has for many years been the fiefdom of metallurgists and geologists, who have developed elegant methodologies for the analysis of

Overview of the TREC 2007 Enterprise Track

December 17, 2008

Author(s)

Ian M. Soboroff, Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Arjen de Vries

The goal of the enterprise track is to conduct experiments with enterprise data that reflect the experiences of users in real organizations. This year, the

Overview of the TREC 2007 Blog Track

December 17, 2008

Author(s)

Ian Soboroff, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis

The goal of the Blog track is to explore the information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere. It aims to create the required in- frastructure to facilitate

Calibration of Hygrometers with the Hybrid Humidity Generator

December 14, 2008

Author(s)

Christopher W. Meyer, Joseph T. Hodges, Peter H. Huang, W Wyatt Miller, Dean C. Ripple, Gregory E. Scace

We describe here the calibration of customer hygrometers using a new humidity generator that has been commissioned at the National Institute of Standards and