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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 primitives belonging to most distributed systems are presented. These primitives apply well to

Enabling Interactive Measurements from Large Coverage Microscopy

July 1, 2016
Author(s)
Peter Bajcsy, Antoine Vandecreme, Julien M. Amelot, Mary C. Brady, Joe Chalfoun, Michael P. Majurski
Microscopy could be an important tool for characterizing stem cell products if quantitative measurements could be collected over multiple spatial and temporal scales. With the cells changing states over time and being several orders of magnitude smaller

TRECVid Semantic Indexing of Video: A 6-Year Retrospective

July 1, 2016
Author(s)
George M. Awad, Cees Snoek, Alan Smeaton, Georges Quenot
Semantic indexing, or assigning semantic tags to video samples, is a key component for content-based access to video documents and collections. The Semantic Indexing task has been run at TRECVid from 2010 to 2015 with the support of NIST and the Quaero

Methodology for Increasing Image Feature Measurement Accuracy

June 30, 2016
Author(s)
Michael Paul Majurski, Joe Chalfoun, Steven Lund, Peter Bajcsy, Mary C. Brady
Motivation Image features are computed in cell biology to derive quantitative information regarding cell state, differentiation, biological activity, and cell dynamics. The accuracy of any biological conclusions depends on the accuracy of the measured

Demystifiying the Internet of Things

June 27, 2016
Author(s)
Jeffrey M. Voas
This short column introduces the need for a foundational science to the Internet of Things (IoT). It introduces the notion of primitives and elements, and their relationship to trustworthiness.

Metamorphic Testing for Cybersecurity

June 27, 2016
Author(s)
Tsong Yueh Chen, Fei-Ching Kuo, Wenjuan Ma, Willy Susilo, Dave Towey, Jeff Voas, Zhi Q. Zhou
Testing is a major approach for the detection of software defects, including security vulnerabilities. This article introduces metamorphic testing (MT), a relatively new testing method, and discusses how the new perspective of MT can help to conduct

Summary of the 2015 NIST Language Recognition i-Vector Machine Learning Challenge

June 24, 2016
Author(s)
Audrey N. Tong, Craig S. Greenberg, Alvin F. Martin, Desire Banse, John M. Howard, G R. Doddington, Danilo B. Romero, Douglas A. Reynolds, Lisa Mason, Tina Kohler, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero, Elliot Singer, Alan McCree, Lisa Mason
In 2015 NIST coordinated the first language recognition evaluation (LRE) that used i-vectors as input, with the goals of attracting researchers outside of the speech processing community to tackle the language recognition problem, exploring new ideas in

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 Infrastructure (PKI)-based identity credentials that are issued for mobile devices by federal

Extending Network Security into Virtualized Infrastructure

June 3, 2016
Author(s)
Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte
This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-125B, "Secure Virtual Network Configuration for Virtual Machine (VM) Protection." That publication provides an analysis of various virtual network configuration options

Insights on Formal Methods of Cybersecurity

May 27, 2016
Author(s)
Jeffrey M. Voas, Kim B. Schaffer
We asked 7 experts 1 simple question to find out what has occurred recently in terms of applying formal methods (FM) to security-centric, cyber problems: Please summarize in a paragraph the state of the research and practitioner communities in formal

On various nonlinearity measures for boolean functions

May 19, 2016
Author(s)
Joan Boyar, Magnus G. Find, Rene Peralta
A necessary condition for the security of cryptographic functions is to be "sufficiently distant" from linear, and cryptographers have proposed several measures for this distance. We show that six common measures, nonlinearity, algebraic degree

Combinatorial Testing for Cybersecurity and Reliability

May 12, 2016
Author(s)
David R. Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte
This bulletin focuses on NIST's combinatorial testing work. Combinatorial testing is a proven method for more effective software testing at lower cost. The key insight underlying combinatorial testing's effectiveness resulted from a series of studies by

Combinatorial Coverage Analysis of Subsets of the TLS Cipher Suite Registry

May 11, 2016
Author(s)
Dimitris Simos, Kristoffer Kleine, D. Richard Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker
We present a combinatorial coverage measurement for (subsets) of the TLS cipher suite registries by analyzing the specified ciphers of IANA, ENISA, BSI, Mozilla and NSA Suite B. Our findings contribute towards the design of quality measures of recommended

Shape Retrieval of Non-Rigid 3D Human Models

April 26, 2016
Author(s)
Afzal A. Godil, David Pickup
3D models of humans are commonly used within computer graphics and vision, and so the ability to distinguish between body shapes is an important shape retrieval problem. We extend our recent paper which provided a benchmark for testing non-rigid 3D shape

Measuring the Usability and Security of Permuted Passwords on Mobile Platforms

April 25, 2016
Author(s)
Kristen K. Greene, John M. Kelsey, Joshua M. Franklin
Password entry on mobile devices significantly impacts both usability and security, but there is a lack of usable security research in this area, specifically for complex password entry. To address this research gap, we set out to assign strength metrics

Guidelines for the Creation of Interoperable Software Identification (SWID) Tags

April 22, 2016
Author(s)
David A. Waltermire, Brant Cheikes, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte
This report provides an overview of the capabilities and usage of software identification (SWID) tags as part of a comprehensive software lifecycle. As instantiated in the International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical

Public Safety Analytics R&D Roadmap

April 19, 2016
Author(s)
Tracy A. McElvaney, Ryan Felts, Marc Leh
The public safety community is in a period of great transition. Over the next 20 years, technology advancements will increase accessibility of data/video applications to public safety, and allow for the eventual migration of voice communications from

New NIST Security Standard Can Protect Credit Cards, Health Information

April 14, 2016
Author(s)
Morris J. Dworkin, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte
This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-38G, "Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Methods for Format-Preserving Encryption." The publication specifies two methods for format-preserving

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 compression of 1000 ppi friction ridge images as detailed in NIST Special Publication 500-289 [NIST5]

The Need for Realism when Simulating Network Congestion

April 2, 2016
Author(s)
Kevin L. Mills, Christopher E. Dabrowski
Many researchers use simulation to investigate network congestion, often finding congestion spread can be modeled as percolation, spreading slowly under increasing load until a critical point, then spreading quickly through the network. The researchers

Analysis of Virtual Networking Options for Securing Virtual Machines

March 20, 2016
Author(s)
Ramaswamy Chandramouli
Virtual Machines (VMs) constitute the primary category of resources to be protected in virtualized infrastructures. Out of the two types of protection for VMs -- Host-level and Network-level -- it is the approaches for the Network-level protection that are
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