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NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge: Enrollment Set Size Variability

Author(s)
Gregory P. Fiumara, Kenneth Ko, Elham Tabassi, Patricia A. Flanagan, John D. Grantham, Karen Marshall, Matthew Schwarz, Bryan Woodgate
In September 2017, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity held a fingerprint data collection as part of the Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge

Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 2 Final Report

Author(s)
Charles A. Barber, Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, Carolyn Q. Burdette, Johanna Camara, Stephen E. Long, Melissa M. Phillips, Benjamin J. Place, Catherine A. Rimmer, Laura J. Wood, Lee L. Yu
The NIST Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program (HAMQAP) was launched in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of

Cybersecurity Framework Manufacturing Profile

Author(s)
Keith A. Stouffer, Timothy A. Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Joshua Lubell, Jeffrey A. Cichonski, John McCarthy
This document provides the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) implementation details developed for the manufacturing environment. The "Manufacturing Profile" of the

2018 National Institute of Standards and Technology Environmental Scan

Author(s)
Jason E. Boehm, Heather Evans, Ajitkumar Jillavenkatesa, Maria Nadal, Mark A. Przybocki, Paul Witherell, Rebecca A. Zangmeister
The 2018 National Institute of Standards and Technology Environmental Scan provide an analysis of the external factors that can influence NIST and the

Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives

Author(s)
Luis T. A. N. Brandao, Nicky W. Mouha, Apostol T. Vassilev
The Computer Security Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is interested in promoting the security of implementations of cryptographic

NIST Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program: 1984-1985 Comparability Studies Results for Round Robins I, II, III and V Fat Soluble Vitamins and Carotenoids in Human Serum

Author(s)
Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, David L. Duewer, Margaret C. Kline, William A. MacCrehan, Robert Paule, Reenie Parris, Willie May, Robert Schaffer
From 1984 to 2017, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and its precursor the National Burearu of Standards (NBS) coordinated what became