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Security and Privacy Issues in Agent-Based Location-Aware Mobile Commerce

August 12, 2009
Author(s)
Tom T. Karygiannis, Emmanouil Antonakakis
Mobile commerce and location-aware services promise to combine the conveniences of both online and offline bricks-and-mortar services. Just as agent-enabled desktop computers can be used to improve a users e-commerce experience, so can agent-enabled mobile

Fast and Secure CBC Type MAC Algorithms

July 21, 2009
Author(s)
Mridul Nandi
The CBC-MAC, or cipher block chaining message authentication code, is a well-known method to generate message authentication codes. Unfortunately, it is not forgery-secure over an arbitrary domain. There are several secure variants of CBC-MAC, among which

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 defects in source code. The main goals of SATE were to enable empirical research based on large test

Cyber Security Standards

June 15, 2009
Author(s)
Karen A. Scarfone, Daniel R. Benigni, Timothy Grance
The goal of cyber security standards is to improve the security of information technology (IT) systems, networks, and critical infrastructures. A cyber security standard defines both functional and assurance requirements within a product, system, process

Directions in Security Metrics Research

April 30, 2009
Author(s)
Wayne Jansen
More than 100 years ago, Lord Kelvin insightfully observed that measurement is vital to deep knowledge and understanding in physical science. During the last few decades, researchers have made various attempts to develop measures and systems of measurement

A Location-Based Mechanism for Mobile Device Security

March 31, 2009
Author(s)
Wayne Jansen, Vlad Korolev
While mobile handheld devices, such as cell phones and PDAs, provide productivity benefits, they also pose new risks. A vital safeguard against unauthorized access to a device s contents is authentication. This paper describes a location-based

Making the Case for EAP Channel Bindings

March 30, 2009
Author(s)
T. C. Clancy, Katrin Hoeper
In current networks that use EAP and AAA for authenticated admission control, such as WiFi, WiMAX, and various 3G internetworking protocols, a malicious base station can advertise false information to prospective users in an effort to manipulate network

Surviving Insecure IT: Effective Patch Management

March 21, 2009
Author(s)
Simon Liu, D. Richard Kuhn, Hart Rossman
The amount of time to protect enterprise systems against potential vulnerability continues to shrink. Enterprises need an effective patch management mechanism to survive the insecure IT environment. Effective patch management is a systematic and repeatable

Computer Security Division 2008 Annual Report

March 16, 2009
Author(s)
Patrick D. O'Reilly
This annual report covers the work conducted within the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division during Fiscal Year 2008. It discusses all projects and programs within the Division, staff highlights, and publications.

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 cryptographic hash functions and digital signature algorithms can be found in FIPS 180-3

Security of Cell Phones and PDAs

January 29, 2009
Author(s)
Shirley M. Radack
This bulletin summarizes the information disseminated in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-124, Guidelines on Cell Phone and PDA Security: Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which was written by Wayne Jansen and Karen

Introducing "Insecure IT"

January 20, 2009
Author(s)
David R. Kuhn, Hart Rossman, Simon Liu
This article introduces a new department for IT Professional that will cover security in IT systems, ranging from desktops to global e-commerce networks. Our goal is to offer ideas to improve IT security, both by looking at ways it can go wrong as well as

Symmetric Key Injection onto Smart Cards

December 22, 2008
Author(s)
David A. Cooper, William I. MacGregor
This paper describes architectures for securely injecting secret keys onto smart cards. Specifically, this paper details key injection architectures based on the identity credentials available on the Personal Identify Verification (PIV) Card. The primary

Property Verification for Generic Access Control Models

December 20, 2008
Author(s)
Chung Tong Hu, David R. Kuhn, Tao Xie
To formally and precisely capture the security properties that access control should adhere to, access control models are usually written to bridge the rather wide gap in abstraction between policies and mechanisms. In this paper, we propose a new general

A Threat Analysis on UOCAVA Voting Systems

December 19, 2008
Author(s)
Andrew R. Regenscheid, Nelson E. Hastings
This report contains the results of NIST s research into technologies to improve the voting process for United States citizens living overseas. It splits the overseas voting process into three stages: voter registration and ballot request, blank ballot
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