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Sticking Together

January 16, 2018

NIST helps to ensure the strength of buildings, bridges, roadways, and other critical structures all over the world. The Material Measurement Lab at NIST makes

NIST Releases Attribute Metadata – A Proposed Schema for Evaluating Federated Attributes (NIST IR 8112)

January 12, 2018

NIST releases Attribute Metadata – A Proposed Schema for Evaluating Federated Attributes (NIST IR 8112), a report that contains a metadata schema for attributes

NIST Releases Developing Trust Frameworks to Support Identity Federations (NIST IR 8149)

January 12, 2018

NIST releases Developing Trust Frameworks to Support Identity Federations (NIST IR 8149), a report that explores the concepts around trust frameworks and

A Framework for Harmonizing Forensic Science Practices and Digital/Multimedia Evidence

January 11, 2018

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC), which works to strengthen forensic science through the development of

NIST Announces the Release of Special Publication 800-90B, Recommendation for the Entropy Sources Used for Random Bit Generation

January 10, 2018

NIST announces the release of Special Publication 800-90B, Recommendation for the Entropy Sources Used for Random Bit Generation. This Recommendation specifies

Recognizing New Cybersecurity Scholarship Efforts

January 10, 2018

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has introduced for the first time, the CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS) Hall of Fame. The SFS Hall of Fame

New NIST “EDGe$” Tool Can Help Communities Select Cost-Effective Resilience Projects

January 8, 2018

A powerful software-based technique for selecting cost-effective, infrastructure-based community resilience projects is now available to the public. The

Laboratory Management Web Application Goes Nationwide

January 8, 2018

Making reservations, accessing tools, and maintaining equipment at the CNST’s NanoFab got a lot easier five years ago when the CNST developed a customized

U.S. Departments of Commerce, Homeland Security Release Preliminary Report on Promoting Action Against Botnets and Other Automated Threats

January 5, 2018

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released a draft report to President Trump in response to

Update to NIST Special Publication 800-160, Systems Security Engineering

January 3, 2018

NIST Special Publication 800-160, Systems Security Engineering — Considerations for a Multidisciplinary Approach in the Engineering of Trustworthy Secure

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‘Quantum Radio’ May Aid Communications and Mapping Indoors, Underground and Underwater

January 2, 2018

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated that quantum physics might enable communications and mapping in

Candidate Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms Publicly Available

December 28, 2017

NIST posted Round 1 of comments on the Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization process. The 69 submissions are candidate quantum-resistant cryptographic

NIST Releases "Guide to LTE Security" Special Publication

December 21, 2017

NIST releases Guide to LTE Security (NIST SP 800-187) , a report that provides information to organizations about the security capabilities of cellular networks

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NIST 2017 Awards Recognize Staff for Outstanding Performance

December 19, 2017

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this week recognized more than 150 staff members for

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New NIST Spectrometer Measures Single Photons with Great Precision

December 18, 2017

Future communications networks that are less vulnerable to hacking could be closer to reality with an invention that measures the properties of single-photon

The Pew Charitable Trusts Releases Improving Patient Care through Safe Health IT

December 18, 2017

The Pew Charitable Trusts releases Improving Patient Care through Safe Health IT, a report that explains how the usability of an electronic health record

NIST Releases "Trustworthy Email" Special Publication

December 15, 2017

The report provides recommendations for state-of-the art email security technologies to detect and prevent phishing and other malicious email messages.

NIST Releases "The Text Recognition Algorithm Independent Evaluation (TRAIT)"

December 15, 2017

NIST releases The Text Recognition Algorithm Independent Evaluation (TRAIT) (NISTIR 8199) , a report that describes how a dataset called the Text Recognition

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Atomic Blasting Creates New Devices to Measure Nanoparticles

December 14, 2017

Like sandblasting at the nanometer scale, focused beams of ions ablate hard materials to form intricate three-dimensional patterns. The beams can create tiny

NIST Releases "Certification of Standard Reference Material (SRM) 968f: Fat-Soluble Vitamins in Frozen Human Serum" Special Publication